Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

Wall St. Firm Has Dire Warning for Investors About the 2020 Presidential and Senate Elections

Wall St. Firm Has Dire Warning for Investors About the 2020 Presidential and Senate Elections
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images // Mark Wilson/Getty Images

The titanic financial advisory firm Signum Global Advisors used its immense research and policy resources and has now changed its original predictions for the 2020 election.

In a memo to its members, Chairman Charles Myers and senior partner Lew Lukens announced that they were readjusting their initial predictions that Republicans would maintain their lead in the Senate, now asserting that Democrats would likely take it back in November.


The firm justified its initial position noting that Democratic Alabama Senator Doug Jones will likely be defeated. The Senator won a special election to replace then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions after Jones's opponent, Roy Moore, faced numerous allegations of pedophilia. It was the first time the state elected a Democratic senator in a quarter of a century.

Factoring for Jones's likely loss in 2020, Democrats would need to gain four seats to take back the Senate. Initially, Signum Global believed they would only take three.

Citing Trump's polling against Biden, they've since changed their position:

"As Joe Biden's lead over Trump in national and battleground polling has widened, several Senate races have become closer. We are changing our call and now predict the Democrats will take the Senate."

In their key takeaways, they warned investors:

"• With Biden polling strongly and more states now in play in the Senate contest, we are changing our call and now believe Democrats will take control of the Senate.

• This will give the Democrats a "sweep" – control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.


• This will have implications on the policy front which we will explore in coming weeks."

Chairman Charles Myers told CNBC News that a Biden election would likely result in more robust corporate taxes across an array of industries.

People were hopeful about the news.






But recalling the bitter upset of the 2016 election, people reminded other Twitter users that predictions without action are worthless.




High voter turnout predictions were a key component in the firm's predictions.

More from People/donald-trump

Stefan Molyneux; Charlie Kirk
@StefanMolyneux/X; Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

Far-Right Podcaster Gets Epic Fact-Check After Claiming Charlie Kirk Never Called Anyone A 'Fascist'

Stefan Molyneux, an Irish-born Canadian White nationalist podcaster who promotes conspiracy theories, White supremacy, scientific racism, and the men's rights movement, jumped to MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's and his fellow hatemonger Charlie Kirk's defense on X.

Writer Peter Rothpletz (Peter Twinklage) shared Trump's widely criticized Truth Social post about Rob Reiner after the actor, writer, director, philanthropist, and activist and his wife were murdered.

Keep ReadingShow less
Tucker Carlson; Donald Trump
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Doug Mills - Pool/Getty Images

Tucker Carlson Dragged After His Conspiracy Theory Prediction About Trump's Speech Is Way Off

Former Fox News personality turned far-right podcaster Tucker Carlson was widely mocked after he made a bold prediction about what President Donald Trump would announce during his primetime address to the nation on Wednesday—namely that the U.S. would go to war with Venezuela.

But it turns out Carlson was very, very wrong. The speech was nowhere near that consequential and Trump spent the majority of it complaining about former President Joe Biden.

Keep ReadingShow less
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; JD Vance
Andres Kudacki/Getty Images; Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/Getty Images

AOC Has Iconic Reaction After She's Asked If She Could Beat JD Vance In 2028 Presidential Election

New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had quite the response to recent polling that suggested she could beat Vice President JD Vance in a hypothetical 2028 presidential election.

A new poll from The Argument/Verasight shows Ocasio-Cortez narrowly edging out Vance in a hypothetical 2028 presidential matchup, with 51 percent of respondents backing her and 49 percent supporting him.

Keep ReadingShow less
marathon runner on starting block
Braden Collum on Unsplash

People Break Down The Greatest Comeback Stories They've Ever Heard

At the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, runner Billy Mills won the 10k meter race—the first and still only runner from the United States to win Olympic gold in the 10k.

Mills is a member of the Oglala Lakȟóta tribe of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Sioux Nation) from Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Mills' Mother Grace died when he was 8 years old and his Father Sidney died when he was 12.

Keep ReadingShow less

People Who Work In Someone Else's Home Share The Most Revealing Things They've Noticed

Going into strangers' homes isn't the most fun thing to do.

I always get nervous.

Keep ReadingShow less