Market Talk – April 21, 2025
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 450.36 points or -1.30% to 34,279.92 • Shanghai increased 14.70 points or 0.45% to 3,291.43 [...]
The political unrest is rising. In Pennsylvania, nearly 60,000 people have changed their political party in order to vote for Trump in the primary. There is clearly a growing dissatisfaction with those in power. One would have thought Hillary was a shoe-in for a coronation, but the rising dissatisfaction with government has made Bernie Sanders a strong second place candidate. Philadelphia, famous for its murals, displays a mural for Bernie Sanders — not Hillary.
We will see this trend continue into the 2018 Congressional elections. We will also see the anti-immigration trend rise in the U.S. since, historically, that trend moves in tandem with economic declines.