Pressure is mounting for Biden to quite the election race | MarketTalk: What’s up today? | Swissquote

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TSM announced better-than-expected quarterly results and lifted its growth projections for this year’s revenue. Good news helped limiting the previous day selloff in chip stocks yesterday but couldn’t prevent the S&P500 and Nasdaq 100 from closing Thursday’s session with losses. Week brings a lot of questions regarding the remaining potential of the AI rally…
In politics, Biden is under an unbearable pressure to leave the presidential race because he is too old. Many Democratic heavy weights are now turning their back against the President. Even Barrack Obama said he should consider stepping down. And there are rumours that he could throw in the towel as early as this weekend. If that happens, we could see the Trump trade gain further momentum.
Some ask how long this Trump trade will last. The answer is a few weeks, maybe a few months, time to give the non-tech pockets of the market to catch their breath and the tech to correct following a breathtaking year-and-a-half rally. But in fine, factors like the Federal Reserve (Fed) and other central banks’ policy decisions, the international trade tensions, the global growth prospects, China, climate and idiosyncratic factors like AI should say the last word on the overall direction of the global stock markets.
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