There’s copiousness for investors to get all stressed out about in a entrance year, and Deutsche Bank arch economist Torsten Slok’s latest list of a 20 biggest risks will do small to assuage those concerns.
As we can see, a intensity for some-more trade fallout and fears over negligence expansion still arrange high on Slok’s list, though inequality is in a tip spot:
“They are all vicious during opposite horizons,” Slok told MarketWatch on Sunday, “but a continued arise in inequality and compared domestic response is something investors can no longer ignore.”
Democratic presidential possibilities positively aren’t ignoring it. Increased taxes on a rich, in an try to slight a divide, is a vicious partial of a campaigns of both Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders forward of a election.
Big-name investors have already done it transparent what a President Warren could meant for markets. Billionares Paul Tudor Jones, Leon Cooperman and Steve Cohen have all talked about a nasty improvement that could follow her victory.
Meanwhile, bonds keep banging out record highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA, +0.02%
, Nasdaq Composite
COMP, +0.48%
and SP 500
SPX, +0.26%
all sealed final week in a green.
Shawn Langlois is an editor and author for MarketWatch in Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter @slangwise.
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