“Most expect Trump to win in 2020, but there’s still some nervousness around the event,” Lori Calvasina, RBC Capital Markets’ head of U.S. equity strategy, wrote to clients, CNBC reported.
Sixty-seven percent “of our March 2019 survey respondents believe that Joe Biden is seen as the most acceptable Democratic candidate by the stock market for the White House. No other candidate got a significant number of votes.”
The survey was taken after special counsel Robert Mueller issued his final report to the Justice Department noting — officially — that his team of Democrat-donor prosecutors did not find that the 2016 Trump campaign “colluded” with Mother Russia to ‘steal the election from Hillary Clinton.’
In all, CNBC reported, 141 equity-focused institutional investors were polled for the survey.
The site noted further:
Presidential elections can have important implications for financial markets based on what traders believe the elected candidate will prioritize while in office. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied more than 450 points in the two days following Trump’s election in 2016 and jumped nearly 8 percent into year-end as investors grew confident in...
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