Washington, March 11, 2025 (AFP) - Honeymoon ends for Trump on US financial markets

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2025-03-12

The euphoria that Donald Trump's election triggered for financial markets seems to be a thing of the past as investors now fret over the prospect of the president's trade wars sparking a US recession. On Monday the S&P 500 stock index dropped sharply, erasing all the gains it had posted since Trump won the election last November. It kept falling Tuesday, a far cry from the 6.5 percent it had risen in the first month of the second Trump administr......

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