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Christian Science Monitor

Surprisingly, Wall Street doesn’t seem to care who gets elected. So far, at least.

Christian Science Monitor
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The stock market has remained buoyant even in a race between two starkly different candidates and with no clear sense of which one will win.

With Election Day less than a week away, the S&P 500 is up by double digits for the year .

The issue is not so much that Wall Street doesn’t perceive the threat, but how far tariffs might reach and how much damage they might do.

Economics and war weighed more on investor sentiment than candidates' economic policies.

Others hope that Mr. Trump would move slowly to implement his trade policy or that Congress or the courts would block such moves.

But one trading firm reports that Robert Lighthizer is telling money managers that a second Trump administration would move quickly.