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US President-elect Donald Trump pays close attention to the stock market and seems to view its performance as a reflection of his own.
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Tara Siegel Bernard and Ron Lieber
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Nobody knows what will send the stock market into a tailspin or when that moment may be coming. This is the inherent risk that comes with investing.
But some investors are concerned that President-elect Donald Trump’s policy agenda – stiff tariffs, deep federal spending cuts, mass deportations of immigrants – could push the market over the edge, inflicting real damage on the investment portfolios they worked so hard to build.
