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Dow hits 20K – Liberal Media was Wrong AGAIN!

<p>The liberal media warned that Trump&rsquo&semi;s election would cause a market crash&comma; but it seems the opposite is happening&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let&&num;8217&semi;s take a look at Wednesday&&num;8217&semi;s numbers&colon;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&bull&semi; Record high for Dow &lpar;up 156 pts&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&bull&semi; Record high for S&amp&semi;P 500 &lpar;up 0&period;8&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&bull&semi; Record high for Nasdaq &lpar;up 0&period;99&percnt;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&bull&semi; Global markets hit 19-month high&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This activity comes following a set of executive orders from the Oval Office&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Traders have been waiting for more details on infrastructure spending and now they have it in a very clear format&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Think Market analyst Naeem Aslam&period; &ldquo&semi;There is nothing bigger than this&period; A break of 20&comma;000 for the Dow stimulates fresh capital which has been waiting for this moment to join this party&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;People are seeing that the administration is carrying through with some of the things they promised&comma;&rdquo&semi; agrees John Stadtler of US Financial Services Industry Practice&period; &ldquo&semi;It looks like long-term capital gains are here to stay&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Holding true to his campaign promises&comma; Trump signed orders Tuesday that will make it easier for Energy Transfer Partners to finish the Dakota Access pipeline and for TransCanada to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Wednesday&comma; he signed a series of immigration-related orders that aim to streamline the deportation process&comma; punish sanctuary cities for their lawless policies&comma; and allocate funding for his promised border wall&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Out of the gate&comma; President Trump is moving along with his agenda&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Terry Sandven of US Bank Wealth Management&period; &ldquo&semi;Earnings have been on the cusp of increasing&comma; and that&rsquo&semi;s going to be key to hold these valuations&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US stock market has also gone up&nbsp&semi;based on expectations that Trump will lower corporate taxes&comma; increase infrastructure spending&comma; and cut regulation&period; Mark Spellman of Alpine Funds points out that because &ldquo&semi;Trump has a majority of both houses&rdquo&semi; he can get things done quickly&period; &ldquo&semi;He can fast-track a lot of policies&comma; which is typically not the case&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Dow is up more than 1&comma;700 points since Trump&rsquo&semi;s victory over Hillary Clinton&comma; with banks as some of the biggest winners&colon; Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase are up more than 20&percnt; and Goldman Sachs is up nearly 30&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But some worry that Trump&rsquo&semi;s anti-globalization stance on trade deals will soon undermine the current market euphoria&period; Already&comma; our new president has done away with the TPP and has promised to start renegotiating NAFTA&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Is the market irrationally exuberant or will Trump prevail in a way that&rsquo&semi;s bullish for the economy&quest;&rdquo&semi; asks Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research&period; &ldquo&semi;The bottom line on Trump is&colon; love him or hate him&comma; you don&rsquo&semi;t want to bet against him&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&rsquo&semi;s Note&colon;<&sol;strong> Among all theses claims of &ldquo&semi;fake news&comma;&rdquo&semi; I&rsquo&semi;d like to point out that <em>Politico<&sol;em>&comma; the <em>New York&nbsp&semi;Times<&sol;em>&comma; <em>CNBC<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Business Insider<&sol;em> all predicted that a Trump &ldquo&semi;upset&rdquo&semi; would be bad news for the stock market&period; In this case we can accuse the accusers of spouting &ldquo&semi;fake news&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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