Spot gold rose 0.7% to $2,739.81 per ounce after hitting a record
$2,744.08 earlier in the session. U.S. gold futures gained 0.6% to
$2,754.30.
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Spot gold rose 0.7% to $2,739.81 per ounce after hitting a record
$2,744.08 earlier in the session. U.S. gold futures gained 0.6% to
$2,754.30.
More.
Camila Thorndike, a top Harris-Walz campaign climate adviser, abruptly walked back her recent comments stating that Vice President Kamala Harris would be hostile to future oil and gas drilling as president—effectively reversing her reversal of the candidate's position.
In a statement Monday, Thorndike lamented that she wasn't clear enough when she told Politico last week that Harris is not "promoting expansion" of oil drilling and suggested Harris was not fond of a provision in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act mandating fossil fuel leases. Thorndike serves as Harris's "climate engagement director."
"I didn't explain myself clearly here," Thorndike said Monday. "Contrary to Trump's claims, the VP has not banned fracking, doesn't support banning fracking, and in fact cast the tie-breaking vote on the biggest pro-climate law ever, which, yes, opened new fracking leases. People know that's her position." ...
It remains unclear how Thorndike's new statement clarifies her comments from last week.
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It's hard to run away from a former position which had no nuance.
Harris was, and remains, an extreme opponent of fossil fuels, a Kool-Aid drinker like Hillary Clinton who thought you could mandate solar panels on every home in the United States.
More importantly, her political support comes from the extreme opponents of fossil fuels, and they have to be assuaged as Harris runs away from them in order to win in pro-fracking Pennsylvania, at whom the Monday statement was aimed.
Harris' climate adviser is being forced by the campaign to say words she doesn't want to say.
GM raises 2024 earnings guidance after easily topping Wall Street’s third-quarter expectations
GM CFO Paul Jacobson warned earnings will be lower during the fourth quarter, citing timing of truck production, seasonality, lower wholesale volumes and vehicle mix, including selling more electric vehicles. ... some of the company’s third-quarter outperformance was assisted by the automaker pulling ahead some truck production from the fourth quarter ...
It's not just the government which borrows from the future.
Spot gold was little changed at $2,723.25 per ounce, as of 1:35 p.m. ET (1735 GMT), after hitting a record $2,740.37 earlier in the session. U.S. gold futures settled 0.3% higher at $2,738.9. ... Spot silver was steady at $33.66 per ounce, after hitting its highest since late-2012 earlier in the session.
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In what will go down as the greatest troll in U.S. presidential
politics, Donald Trump put on an apron, scooped up some fries and blew a
hole in the HMS Harris-Walz. ...
And if you don’t understand what Trump did at McDonald’s and that it was a breakthrough in this campaign, then you don’t understand Trump or the country. ...
The cook who was too old, too tired and too senile to be president took the entire contents of the freezer bag labeled “Democratic Party” and emptied it into his metal basket.
Then he deep fried it in hydrogenated vegetable fat.
-- Phil Boas, "Trump went to McDonald's and fried Kamala Harris' campaign to a crisp" for The Arizona Republic
If they did exist, the lost lives are on him and no one else because he kept his mouth shut, which is what he should be doing right now instead of spewing lies to get Kamala Harris elected.