Posted on 01/17/2016 11:38:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump wants to slap tariffs on China -- and maybe Japan. He'd build a wall with Mexico. He promises a more pugnacious American posture in the world, and probably a lot more unilateralism.
Bernie Sanders wants to jack up the federal minimum wage, tax short-term stock market trading, and probably raise other taxes and regulations as well.
Both men are rising in the polls.
And as they're going up, the stock market is going down.
Surprised? Don't be.
Stock markets hate three things in this world. The first is anyone who dissents from the orthodoxy of MBA economics. The second is anyone they can't control. The third is uncertainty.
And both Trump and Sanders are offering all three. We're talking Wall Street Nightmare Bingo.
It may be no coincidence that the Dow Jones Industrial Average tanked on Friday, the day after another Republican debate. Trump confirmed his commanding lead in the race, while Jeb Bush went under for the third and, surely, final time.
Yes, of course, there are lots of reasons why stock markets are down so far this year. People are worried about the slowing Chinese economy. They're worried about falling oil prices, rising interest rates and the dangers of overpriced stocks.
But as a money manager explained to me over lunch this week, he and his clients are also focusing now on a fifth worry: politics.
Even in Wall Street's best-case scenario, the parties will only pick establishment candidates after months of bruising primary battles.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Vote for one of the Wonder Bread candidates, or else the sky will fall!
Finally.
Good article. Our entire business environment is run by people who don’t care about America.
None of them. Very good article.
As a businessman, Trump knows to bring certainy and stability to the market. He will get rid or a lot of needless governemnt red tpe and regulation, and let the economy grow. Wall Street will love a Trump presidency.
Watch out, Trump want’s to make America great again and put American first, all the time. There’s an ocean of people on the bloated bigov payroll who have no desire to see that.
>>Stock markets hate three things in this world. The first is anyone who dissents from the orthodoxy of MBA economics.
That is the absolute truth!
Sanders scaes everyone. Trump scares the folks solely dependent on foreign trade, but that would be offset by folks who are more domestic, and the commodities folks. So Trump’s effect would be a wash.
I tend to see it as the weakness in oil is dragging down the market. Same thing last August
Add to that the rate hike.
Baby Market is crying for a new QE bottle.
What a stupid title. Anyone that can explain market movements, identifying the specific reason, is a liar.
Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the 85 billion dollars a month they pumped into the market that is now gone.
Lord have mercy you can’t fix stupid. Liberal reporter’s again doing that projection thing...picking a conclusion they want and blaming who or what they want the root cause to be.
Bottom line even if Sanders and Trump didn’t exist the markets would be doing the same things worldwide! ...hello? It is because of some of Bush’s compassionate spending followed by 0Obama’s lack of compassionate spending and China’s fake economy and, well, a whole bunch of other Fed monkeying ...
correct
I completely agree.
But our market will change, big time.
For over one entire generation, we have allowed people to monopolize our business environment, who cared not one bit about America.
That will change. And that means some of the businesses which have been selling out America for so long, will lose. Bigtime. And that means some very big companies.
But overall, the change will be (very) positive for our country.
What we are seeing in the markets right now however, is there is a significant portion of US businesses which have been selling out America now for far, far too long.
They will lose.
It is about time. In my opinion, anyway.
What crap.
The stock market is freaking out on propaganda, mainly, and obvious short moves following propaganda blitzes, low oil prices and oil producers and suppliers shutting down. The markets don’t care much about any political election until election time, and then, not a whole lot.
We get a snap back rally after a bad day w/ hi volume so maybe this week provides some relief. S&P 500 is one step away from a bear market (other maj. indexes already are)
Sell the rallies.. be nimble.
Absolute nonsense. The market upheaval is the ripple effect of oil and other commodity dependent countries liquidating their sovereign wealth fund holdings in order to cover current account deficits.
I don’t think they’re looking that far ahead. They’re freaked out about China, primarily.
The stock market hates change in the short term, even if it’s good change.
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