Deep Dive: Trump has 'too much to lose' abandoning markets but 'resentment' could get the better of him

100 days of Trump

Maria Nicholls
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The recent reprieve in global financial meltdown is an encouraging sign US President Donald Trump has not completely turned his back on markets – or is simply not able to – but investors warned the risk is far from over.

In the 100 days since he took office for his second term, markets have been battered by a savage swing from a vote-winning business-first agenda to an America-first (against all odds) one. A pro-business ‘Trump bump' initially saw the S&P 500 hit a new record high in February but, by March, it had slumped into correction territory as the president began to unveil his protectionist tariff plans, before bottoming on 8 April following a brutal loss of investor confidence post-‘Liberation Day'. 100 days of Trump 2.0 in charts: Fed rate cuts, S&P 500 crash and questions over Treasuries ...

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