If Trump wins, will the stock market collapse?

ToneControl

Other than  vendors of survival gear, etc?

octatonic

The whole market?
No.
Weapons, tobacco, pharma should all go up.

Axe_meister

The dollar might loose alot of value in the short term, which may mean our fuel prices will go down (eventually)

jpttaylor

Yes, along with Western civilisation.

cruxiform

Not sure about the Stock Market but I'm sure a few arses will.

JezWynd

The man bestrides the business world like a ... trump

http://gawker.com/a-complete-list-of-donald-trump-s-business-disasters-1764151188

Hertz32

Economic forecasts for both trump and clinton show short term boosts to their economy followed by decine. The only difference between the two was the reasons for doing so. 

thebreeze

If you heard the interview with Tony Schwartz on PM (R4) on Friday it really won't matter what happens to the stock market.....

mixolyd

Probably not: the business media is much less partisan towards Hillary than the media at large (because they are expected to provide hard evidence to inform investment decisions) so the big movers and pros in the markets have a much less hysterical view of Trump than most civvies.

The Goldman Sachs-led cabal will be annoyed and a little nervous of what might happen under Trump since he's not in their pocket but Trump's said nothing to make anyone expect any major upheaval to business as usual.

Check out David Sirota's article feed at the IBTimes to see what it looks like when a journalist peeks behind the curtains of both sides.

http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/david-sirota

thebreeze

mixolyd said:

Probably not: the business media is much less partisan towards Hillary than the media at large (because they are expected to provide hard evidence to inform investment decisions) so the big movers and pros in the markets have a much less hysterical view of Trump than most civvies.

The Goldman Sachs-led cabal will be annoyed and a little nervous of what might happen under Trump since he's not in their pocket but Trump's said nothing to make anyone expect any major upheaval to business as usual.

Check out David Sirota's article feed at the IBTimes to see what it looks like when a journalist peeks behind the curtains of both sides.

http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/david-sirota

An interesting post.  In as much as the tenor of what you say gives the impression that the "big movers and the pros" could never get something so wrong as to completely mess up the economy/everyone's lives more often than is good for us all.   Perhaps their  assessment of Trump might be off the mark too?  

I'm also left wondering about the use of the word "civvies".  

merlin

Who cares about the Stock Market, we'll all be reading 400,000 milliRem anyway so WTF?

thomasross20

Hope not!

stickyfiddle

The dollar will drop at least in the short term, but that might rally the markets in the same way the FTSE has increased since the pound tanked.

I have half a house deposit to transfer from GBP to AED (pegged to the $) in the next month so it'd be a decent silver lining if he does get in.

Evilmags

It will get more volatile and trend negatively until it becomes clear how much stupidity he is prepared to actually deliver on. If he hits at US companies manufacturing abroad then it will go down a lot as the two biggest indices have a lot of overseas earnings and production. 

Sesh

Yesterday, n a bored moment I happened to read the wiki entry for The Running Man film starring Arnie. That's based after a worldwide economic collapse in 2017.