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Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney dine at Jean Georges restaurant, November 29, 2016 in New York City. President Donald Trump said in a Monday evening Twitter post that he supported and endorsed Mitt Romney for his run for a Senate seat. That came as a surprise to …

Aamir Qureshi | AFP | Getty Images A Chinese worker stands near trucks during the opening of a trade project at Pakistan’s Gwadar port on November 13, 2016. China is pouring an estimated $60 billion into Pakistan as part of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but financial experts CNBC …

Moore said analysts have been ratcheting up their earnings forecasts based on what companies said during earnings season. The expectation is that earnings growth this year could now be 19 percent. Sixty percent of S&P 500 companies provided guidance that exceeded expectations. BlackRock monitors earnings revisions, which can be a …

Sputnik/Kremlin | Alexei Druzhinin | Reuters Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (2nd L), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L), Director of Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov (2nd R), and Director of Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin at the Kremlin in Moscow on Dec. 19, 2016. The Kremlin reacted to …

Paul Drinkwater | Getty Images Oprah Winfrey speaks onstage during the Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2018. In a late Sunday night post on Twitter, President Donald Trump called media mega-celebrity Oprah Winfrey “insecure” after watching the television icon’s “60 Minutes” show. Trump claimed …

Thomas Peter – Pool/Getty Images The military aide carrying the nuclear football (second from left) with U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Things got physical between U.S. and Chinese officials over the nuclear “football” during President Donald Trump’s visit to …

Haydar Hadi | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi delivers a speech during Baghdad Dialogue Conference in Baghdad, Iraq on January 14, 2017. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that spending on reconstruction — not arms — was necessary for peace. Discussing the amount of money …

Haydar Hadi | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi delivers a speech during Baghdad Dialogue Conference in Baghdad, Iraq on January 14, 2017. With elections just months away, Iraq’s prime minister has called on the country’s political system to reform itself and move away from its …

Bloomberg | Contributor | Getty Images Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, in Athens, Greece, on Friday, May 27, 2016. Mueller’s 37-page indictment, released on Friday, revealed the depth of Russian involvement in the U.S. political process. The document stated that a Russian organization, called the Internet Research Agency, created fictitious American …

Chris J Ratcliffe | Getty Images Europe | Getty Images UKIP party leader Henry Bolton during a Justice for Veterans protest at Whitehall on February 3, 2018 in London, England. Members of the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) voted to remove their leader Henry Bolton at an extraordinary general …