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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens during a town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center and Fairgrounds in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on October 14, 2024. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty ImagesKamala Harris mocked Donald Trump's behavior at an unusual campaign event, where the GOP presidential nominee cut short a question-and-answer session to listen to music with the crowd for nearly 40 minutes."Hope he's okay," Harris, the Democratic nominee, wrote on X early Tuesday morning.The vice president's tweet was replying to her campaign X account's post saying, "Trump appears lost, confused, and frozen on stage as multiple songs play for 30+ minutes and the crowd pours out of the venue early."It was one of many posts by social media users that raised eyebrows...

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social is shown on a cell phone in Chicago on March 25, 2024.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesTrump Media shares closed down nearly 10% Tuesday, after a wild trading session that was briefly halted due to volatility when the Truth Social owner's stock suddenly plunged in price.DJT shares, which had been up more than 13% earlier Tuesday afternoon, abruptly turned more than 6% lower on the day at the time the halt occurred. Trump Media continued to fall after the five-minute trading halt lifted at 2:47 p.m. ET.Trump Media settled at $27.06 per share.The stock price whipsawed during an extremely volatile trading session in which more than 97 million shares traded hands — multiple times the company's 30-...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2020.Kevin Dietsch | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDonald Trump's new crypto project is off to a rough start.World Liberty Financial, which aspires to be a sort of crypto bank, launched its token sale on Tuesday, a day after project co-founder Zachary Folkman said "well over 100,000 people" are on the whitelist to invest.But WLF's website suffered regular and lengthy outages for much of the morning and early afternoon, contributing to a limited number of sales. Only about 4,300 unique walled addresses hold the token as of Tuesday afternoon, according to blockchain data tracked by Etherscan, representing roughly 4% of the total number of people who registered.The platform says it has sold more t...

A United Airlines Boeing 737-MAX 8 aircraft departs at San Diego International Airport en route to New York on Aug. 24, 2024.Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines said Tuesday that it is starting a $1.5 billion share buyback as the carrier reported higher-than-expected earnings for the busy summer travel season and forecast strong results for the last three months of the year.United expects to earn an adjusted $2.50 to $3.00 a share in the fourth quarter, compared to $2.00 a share a year earlier and the $2.68 analysts polled by LSEG estimated.Here is what United reported for the third quarter compared with what Wall Street expected, based on average estimates compiled by LSEG:Earnings per share: $3.33 adjusted vs. $3.17 expectedRevenue: $14.84 billion vs. $14.78 billion expectedThe sh...

The U.S. economy may not experience a "soft landing" after all. A soft landing occurs when economic growth slows just enough to bring down inflation below the Federal Reserve's 2% target without tipping the economy into a recession. Many on the Street expect this to be the case, as the central bank starts to lower interest rates. BNY Wealth's Alicia Levine has a more optimistic view. She thinks the economy is experiencing a no-landing scenario as it continues to expand without slowing down. "So far, clearly bank earnings are coming in better than expected, both top line and bottom line. Net interest income is better than expected. So, that is a good signal for the economy," the firm's head of investment strategy and equities told CNBC's " Squawk Box " on Tuesday. "The other thing that that...