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S&P 500 has surged 50%, while average is only 23% Got money in a mutual fund? Have a bit of a stock portfolio? Those shares your aunt left you? Even a retirement or pension plan? You gotta like President Donald Trump. A report from CNBC explains that the stock markets under Trump stack up "well" against the majority of his predecessors. "The S&P 500 has returned more than 50% since Trump was elected, more than double the 23% average market return of presidents three years into their term, according to data from Bespoke Investment Group dating to 1928," the report...

The liberal media are rushing to see whether President Trump will accept blame for the stock drop in the same way he took credit for its rise. But CNN came up with a new twist on the blame-Trump game this morning, suggesting that the Trump taxs cuts are the culprit. Alisyn Camerota teed it up, suggesting, in respect of the stock drop, that the cuts were “at work here.” John Avlon was only too happy to run with the ball, saying it was indeed possible that: “those tax cuts created the conditions for this [stock drop.]” Get the rest of...

The White House said Monday it is worried about the U.S. stock market sell-off. "We're always concerned when the market loses any value, but we're also confident in the economy's fundamentals," an official said in a statement to CNBC. The Dow Jones industrial average briefly fell more than 300 points Monday morning and the S&P 500 traded about 0.75 percent lower, extending last week's plunge. President Donald Trump has touted the strong stock market performance since his election win and has yet to deal with a significant market pullback. The Dow is up more than 30 percent since the election.

Donald Trump is seeing ugly bubbles in stocks. By MarkDeCambre “We are in a big fat ugly bubble, and we better be careful,” declared Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the first of three debates with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Monday. The statement was one of many zingers Trump lobbed as he attempted to cast the economy and the U.S. market as standing on a precarious footing. It is a charge that, in part, he hopes will serve as a rebuke to President Barack Obama’s presidency and indirectly to Clinton who served as U.S. Secretary of State. At least...