Is a Stock Market Crash Coming Now That the Trump Agenda Stalled?

The ‘Trump Rally’ drove the Dow up 16% between Election Day and March 1, when it hit an all-time high of 21,115. But today the Dow opened down 172 points, or nearly 1%, from Friday’s close after Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare.
As the Trump agenda stalls, investors are worried a stock market crash is coming…
And investors are right to consider the possibility of a stock market crash in 2017.
Today (March 27), the CBOE Volatility Index jumped 1.5% to hit its 2017 high of 14.86. The ‘VIX’ measures how much volatility traders are expecting on the stock market. The higher it goes, the more fearful traders are getting.
And that fear level is rising because the ‘Trump Rally’ sent stocks to perilous highs and the optimism that inflated stock prices is coming to an abrupt end…
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This post was published at Examiner on March 27, 2017.

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