Unprecedented recent volatility, with shares in the GameStop video game store surging more than 400 percent, prompted calls for regulators to review the role of social media, hedge funds and trading platforms which some allege manipulated the market.
A swift impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is unlikely to lead to his ouster before Joe Biden takes office on January 20. This raises the prospect of a bitter trial in the Senate during Biden’s first days in the White House.