Donald Trump
US equities – the Trump honeymoon period continues
A little over a month into Donald Trump’s presidency, US equity indices are at record highs and money keeps flowing into the asset class. Are markets right to be sanguine?
Trump tweets on US stocks winning streak , but is he right?
The S&P 500 stock index posted a record high on Wednesday, prompting Donald Trump to tweet enthusiastically that the market was on its “longest winning streak in decades”. Is this correct, or are we dealing with just another alternative fact?
North America | 9 Feb 17
Sorting through the winners and losers post-Dodd Frank
The dismantling of Dodd-Frank will give European banks with ties to the United States a competitive advantage and could influence other nations to adopt a more competitive regulatory scheme.
North America | 3 Feb 17
Trump slams brakes on fiduciary rule
Donald Trump is to sign a directive halting the implementation of the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule, which requires financial advisers of retirement products to act in the best interests of their clients.
North America | 2 Feb 17
Fiduciary rule critic loses White House job on ethics grounds
A vocal critic of the US Department of Labor’s (DoL) fiduciary rule, Anthony Scaramucci, will no longer be appointed to a role in Donald Trump’s White House due to an ethics conflict.