‘This is a tidal wave’: Democrats blow Republicans out of the water in the key bellwether state of Election Day 2017

Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters Democrats swept elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City on Tuesday, prompting pundits and pollsters to predict a Democratic comeback.  Most notably, Democrats made dramatic gains in Virginia, a traditionally purple state that, on Tuesday, elected Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam and flipped dozens of seats in the state legislature.  Democrats scored sweeping […]

A key bellwether of North Korea tensions is surging

Tension between the US and North Korea helped create a small dent in several stock markets around the world on Wednesday. But one stock, described as a bellwether of tensions in the Korean peninsula, is making an outsized move higher.  Shares of Victek, a South Korean maker of military equipment, surged by as much as 20%. South Korea, a […]