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Nouriel Roubini: Donald Trump’s monetary conundrum

Equity markets will like many of Trump's proposals, but investors need to watch for overly-aggressive monetary hawkishness

Nouriel Roubini: Donald Trump’s monetary conundrum
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When Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the United States’ presidential election, the market’s immediate negative response was to be expected. But by the next day, the market’s downward turn had already reversed itself.

US equities and bond yields rallied after Trump delivered a victory speech that seemed to signal that he was tacking to the center, which investors had originally expected him to do this summer, after he won the Republican nomination and entered the general election campaign. In his speech, Trump promised to be a president for all Americans, praised Clinton for her past public service, and vowed to pursue massive fiscal-stimulus policies centered on infrastructure spending and tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

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