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In their submissions, the Conservatives called for a cap on individual donations to political parties, but Labour rejected this and instead called for caps on campaign spending throughout the year, rather than simply in a run - up to an election as now.

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Up 5.6 % over the same period, the S&P 500 also set a new record high on Friday, but only for the seventh time since the election, according to S&P Global — half as many times as the Dow.

The firm exploited Facebook's data rules to vacuum up data from some 50 million Facebook users in 2014 as part of an operation to seed attack ads on the internet during the 2016 US election.

The population seems divided as to who will lead the country after the next election, but most people appear fed up with the entire political system.

The decision may be a blow to the Republican Party's fundraising as it gears up for midterm elections in November with an unpopular president as its standard - bearer.

Lopez Obrador's party, Morena, has dismissed the suggestion it has ideological or political sympathies for Venezuela's socialist government, but this year, opponents in Mexico have played up purported links between the two, as they did to him before the 2006 election.

The billionaire investor attended Trump's Tuesday night victory party as the election results rolled in, but left early to load up on more stock as Dow and S&P futures plunged in the middle of the night, according to CNBC.

It's another busy week in the run up to the first presidential caucus for the 2016 election, as two more candidates joined the race.

Not only are they almost twice as likely to vote in federal elections as younger people, it is also bad for your image to be viewed as beating up on the Golden Girls.

Germany's media isn't normally as breathless as, for example, the British press, but it's always willing to whip Germans up into a frenzy over the ECB's zero interest - rate policy, especially in an election year.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

The opposition parties have panned the move as a reckless and desperate attempt to shore up votes ahead of the spring election.

«In the run up to national elections the incumbent client was widely perceived as both kind and honorable, qualities his campaign team thought were potentially election - winning,» the site reportedly said.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

Trump and his allies have seized on Uranium One as Mueller's investigation into the president's possible coordination with Russia to swing the 2016 election in his favor heats up.

Russian nationals identified in a Justice Department indictment released Friday used cryptocurrency exchanges as part of an alleged scheme to mislead U.S. citizens leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Adding even more weight to Sandoval's misstep, Nevada is one of the only seven states Politico Magazine rated as a toss - up in the 2016 elections.

Having tried to dissuade Trump behind the scenes, hoping that he would vacillate on this issue as he had on DACA and guns, the usually supine Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan finally spoke up after five days of public silence, expressing concern on the part of their followers that the tariffs would set off a trade war and wipe out the economic gains on which they were pinning their November election prospects.

U.S. stocks experienced sharp drops in August 2015, when China devalued its currency; in January 2016, as oil prices dropped; in June of 2016, after the «Brexit» vote; and in the run — up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

As we approach the final days leading up to the U.S. Presidential election, many investors are taking a look at their allocation to emerging markets (EMs), especially in light of rising protectionist rhetoric that could be harmful to many EM economies.

Canada's millennials (born between 1983 and 1999; aged 18 to 34 as of 2017) are the generation that grew up in an era of a rising Asia and who will form the largest block of the electorate in the 2019 Canadian federal election.

In the fall of 2006, as midterm elections approached, Facebook took the then bold step of allowing political candidates to set up modified profile pages, well before celebrities and products could have fan pages of their own.

One thing we do know from recent policy announcements, Conservatives will live up to their election commitments no matter how bad they are as policy commitments.

Critics point out that the open system can be gamed, especially when an incumbent's backers flock to the other party's primary to support a weaker candidate, who then ends up as the other party's nominee against the incumbent in the general election.

The Conservatives are playing up low - cost initiatives such as action on cross-border price differences because they've restricted spending to balance the books by 2015, expected to be an election year, and don't have the cash right now for major tax cuts or lavish program spending.

Not only is it trying to comply with GDPR, but it's also dealing with the negative backlash from users and media following revelations that its data policies allowed the personal information of as many as 87 million unknowing users to end up in the hands of an outside data firm that worked with U.S. President Donald Trump during the 2016 election.

Of course, 2016 was shaping up as a fairly humdrum affair itself until Election Day, with year - to - date gains on the leading benchmarks in the mid-single-digit range.

As reported in the Globe and Mail on October 31, federal Finance Minister Flaherty is reviving and polishing - up the Conservative Party's ill - conceived election proposal to end taxation of individual capital gains if the proceeds are re-invested.

Through 2015 Facebook had actually been ramping up its internal focus on elections as a revenue generating opportunity — growing the headcount of staff working directly with politicians to encourage them to use its platform and tools for campaigning.

Prior to the freeze on July 1, 2009, the Supplemental 401 (k) Plan provided for Company contributions equal to the team member's deferral election in the Wells Fargo 401 (k) Plan as of January 1 for the relevant year up to 6 % of certified compensation, as defined in the plan.

«This all started with Christy Clark as education minister ripping up contracts, and it continued with her deliberately trying to provoke a strike for her own political gain in the lead up to the last election.

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At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

This June, just as the election season was gearing up, Facebook tweaked its algorithm to play down posts from news outlets and to increase updates shared by friends and family.

«In the lead up to the election, the London sales market quieted as many wealthy individuals waited on the outcome.

The run - up to the election has seen confidence in the Chilean market balloon as Piñera's victory has been all but foretold.

If elections play out as polls suggest, and if the United Kingdom and the EU can begin constructive Brexit negotiations, we believe pent up corporate demand and relief among investors could lead to strong economic and financial market performances across Europe.

Premier Rachel Notley and Alberta's new NDP government have pledged to ban corporate and union donations in provincial politics, and they now have what could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to clean up election finance laws in Alberta's municipal elections as well.

It seems as if in every meeting I have had lately with clients, questions about the upcoming U.S. election and its implications for markets are the first to come up.

National data pointed to continued strength in the Spanish economy but a loss of momentum in France, as French consumers reined in their spending, probably due to political uncertainty in the run - up to the country's presidential election.

Trump spoke as his White House tried to pick up the pieces after Democrats» apparent victory in a special election in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump won by 20 points in 2016.

As the parties roll out their own platforms in the weeks leading up to Election Day, we will be using this dashboard to assess their policies, provide our Members with key insights, and determine whether the priorities of our region's business community are adequately reflected in each party's vision for the province.

The survey was launched last month as part of The Vancouver Board of Trade's efforts to inform and engage local businesses in the lead - up to the Nov. 15 election.

U.S. President Donald Trump took a swing at Facebook on Friday - a day after the social media giant vowed to step up its fight to protect election integrity - dismissing the Facebook ads controversy as a «Russia hoax».

How European markets might react to the possibility of «Brexit,» which is shorthand for «British exit from the European Union,» both in the run - up to the UK election and its aftermath, remains unclear, although given that UK assets suffered as the result of the referendum on Scottish independence became less predictable such volatility could conceivably reoccur.

That famous man took him on as a junior partner, a relationship that lasted the 17 years up to Lincoln's election as president.

For starters, it has given me a very important inside & background story as to make up my mind as to who to vote for, if Mitt Romney will become a candidate, in the next general elections.

As Nigeria begins its transition from a military to a civilian government» the process working its way up from local levels, where civilians are already in charge, to the national level, where elections are scheduled for next year» it faces the possibility of a crisis like the one that almost destroyed the country twenty - four years ago.

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.