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"An adage on Wall Street holds that it is unwise to play politics with your portfolio. Americans are increasingly doing just that."

A bigger difference that I would have guessed, lol
A Gallup poll this spring showed that Democrats who expected stocks to tumble over the next six months exceeded Republicans by 59 percentage points. Republicans expecting stocks to climb over that period topped Democrats by 47 percentage points.
Si-llyyy:
The party affiliations of Americans have long shaped how they feel about the economy, or the price of eggs and milk at the grocery store, as people give lower marks when their party is out of power. The perception gap started growing much wider after the election of Donald Trump in 2016, according to a monthly consumer survey conducted by the University of Michigan.
Besten is based af:
One investor who voted for Trump and isn’t too concerned about the tariff turmoil is Bruce Besten, a 68-year-old restaurant owner in Louisville, Ky. He said media “hype” about how tariffs would pummel the economy created buying opportunities for him during the big market swoon in April, when he picked up stocks including Nvidia
Much more interesting comparison: Politics is nooooise

"Some investors said that doing nothing might still be the best move—whatever one’s political leanings. "


You can't really act on anything other than your own worldview, so I don't see how this could be different.
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mark of a clever/investing mind to separate emotions from logic; political anger from "how will this impact market x?"
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Right, but you wouldn't be a partisan if you didn't think it was logical.
It would be weird if they thought that Trump was a dangerous maniac about to destroy the economy with tariffs and then invest their money in import dependent industries.
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I guess.
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So are we having a massive transition in stock ownership from democrats to republicans then?
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So it would seem
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But adjusted for the fall in the USD exchange rate, S&P 500 did not actually recover from the "liberation day". So those investors who fled the US are better off.
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In the immortal words of GameKyuubi: "I'm a bad trader, but I know I'm a bad trader."
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Doesn't politics and economy go hand in hand?
But TBH I've never done the same when I used to trade in stocks. I don't mix both even today.
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