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Can someone explain how the stock market goes up and down based on anything Trump says?

It's like he can just say whatever he wants and it reacts as if he's telling it what to do.
 
lightbluenc said:
Can someone explain how the stock market goes up and down based on anything Trump says?

It's like he can just say whatever he wants and it reacts as if he's telling it what to do.
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It seems to me the stock market moves because there are a bunch of traders and speculators who sit around every minute trying to figure out the tea leaves on everything so they can get a jump on the rest of us and make a killing. Reports of members of Congress and this Administration doing just that based on inside knowledge is proof. Watch the business channel for 30 minutes and you will also see the mindset of reading the tea leaves and how to play it.
 
This seems to me to be the #1 reason the market is so quick to rebound in circumstances that would have caused a prolonged slide in the past --

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lawtig02 said:
Sorry, should have linked. It's trillions of dollars.

Release: Quarterly Retirement Market Data, Third Quarter 2025 | Investment Company Institute

Retirement Assets Total $48.1 Trillion in Third Quarter 2025
www.ici.org www.ici.org
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I remember reading some analysis that it was retail investors and retirement accounts that prevented the initial COVID sell-off from reaching 1929 crash levels.

So I’ve subsequently wondered- what happens when all the boomers are deep into retirement and start drawing heavily on their accounts, and then Gen X starts retiring en masse, etc. Is it reasonable to expect slower growth just due to those structural factors?
 
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