The global turmoil Trump fueled is poised to haunt him as markets fluctuate
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/11/politics/donald-trump-global-economy-macron-may-merkel/index.html
The global turmoil Trump fueled is poised to haunt him as markets fluctuate
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 3:32 AM ET, Tue December 11, 2018
Washington (CNN)US President Donald Trump unleashed a wave of global disruption on the way to the White House in 2016 -- and now there are signs the anti-elite tide he surfed to the presidency could come back to hurt him.
Pandemonium in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin is breeding the kind of uncertainty that investors and markets abhor, just at the moment fears are growing of a global economic slowdown and an end to a years-long bull run.
Any sign that the economy is losing steam and that the decade of recovery from the most recent financial crisis is ebbing could come just at the wrong moment for the President, as he and his potential Democratic challengers spoil for battle ahead of his re-election campaign.
Disarray at home and abroad
Stocks plunge on US-China trade tension
Stocks plunge on US-China trade tension 03:32
Political disarray in the US and abroad is already triggering bearish sentiment and volatility that has seen US markets hand back most of their gains this year -- no doubt to the chagrin of Trump who boasted repeatedly that his policies were the reason the Dow racked up a string of record highs.
Trump's truce in a trade war with China also rattled investor confidence since it turned out to be less extensive than the "incredible" breakthrough he touted after talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Argentina................................