Worst stock market balance for 50 years at the start of office

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Lerato Khumalo

Newsblog on US politics

Trump with the worst stock market record for 50 years

Updated on April 30th, 2025 – 1:42 p.m.Reading time: 3 min.

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Trump’s new customs policy has triggered major uncertainty at the international capital markets. (Source: Imago/Elmar Kremser/Sven Simon/Imago)

Donald Trump’s term of office begins with the worst stock market record of the past 50 years. His promises encounter harsh economic realities. All developments in the news blog.

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The US President Donald Trump promised his voters a “glorious era for America”, characterized by an economic upswing and an America-first mentality. The international capital markets reacted similarly in November when Trump was actually elected by the American people. Investors are increasingly relating to US shares, such as the broadly positioned S&P 500, which depicts the 500 most economic stock market companies in the United States. After the election, he has ever recorded the highest preliminary preliminary preliminary preliminary.

However, the euphoria of the markets ended at the beginning of the year. Since Trump took office on January 20, the S&P 500 lost 7.3 percent, which has completely erased the previously recorded profits of the withdrawal period. Among other things, Trump’s protectionist customs policy is held responsible for this.

According to the financial analysis company CFRA Research, this is the most secondary performance during the first 100 days of a US president. Wall Street only ran even worse in 1973 when the S&P 500 broke up by 9.9 percent at the beginning of the second term of the republican Richard Nixon.

The husband of the former presidential candidate of the US Democrats Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, was released by US President Donald Trump from the Washington Holocaust Museum’s board of directors. Emhoff accused Trump on Tuesday in online service X political reasons for his release. “The memory of the Holocaust and Holocaust formation should never be politicized,” wrote Emhoff. Read more about it here.

Despite repeated annexation threat, US President Donald Trump congratulated the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the victory of his liberal party in the parliamentary election in Canada. This was done on a phone call between Trump and Carney, said the Canadian Prime Minister’s office. “The heads of state agreed on the importance of the cooperation between Canada and the United States – as independent, sovereign states – to their mutual improvement.” That’s why they wanted to meet “in the near future” personally.

It was his contribution to US President Donald Trump’s hundred-day balance: Defense Minister Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday on the platform X “with pride” that the funding program “Women, Peace and Security” had stopped in his ministry. Hegseth said that it was “another wokes, splitting” program that was driven by “feminists and left”, but was “hated” by soldiers. Read here what important information had overlooked Hegseth.

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