McConnell responded to the incident in a statement on Saturday calling it a radical tantrum, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. I ve spent my career fighting for the First Amendment and defending peaceful protest. I appreciate every Kentuckian who has engaged in the democratic process whether they agree with me or not, McConnell said, according to the Courier-Journal. Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society, he added.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s California home on Friday morning was also found vandalized. The words $2k CANCEL RENT! were spray-painted on her white garage door and a deceased pig s head coated in fake blood was found on her driveway.
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Politics was in play last week as UK-EU trade talks and US stimulus discussions took centre stage. There were some fresh concerns on the British-European front and that weighed on sentiment a little, hence why the FTSE 100 and major indices in continental Europe lost a little ground on Friday. The absence of a Covid-19 relief package in the US caused stocks to retreat from their recent record highs.
Last night, US Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, said that an agreement has been reached and the package is worth around $900bn. Nancy Pelosi, of the Democrats, said the deal will take some time to finalise. US index futures initially traded higher on the news but those gains have been wiped out by concerns about the health crisis, with cases in South Korea and Germany on the rise, while Britain has become isolated due to its own health emergency.
Wed, 16 December 2020 | Written By: Neil Wilson
Neil is chief market analyst for Markets.com and also writes for the Investors Chronicle as ‘The Trader’, with the daily market outlook published online each morning.
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