Trump can take some of the credit but much of this was baked in the cake as a result of the careful nurturing of monetary policy and interest rates by the US central bank the Federal Reserve. The current excitement on Wall Street began when Trump was elected on a platform of deregulation of Wall Street and business, tax cuts and fiscal expansion. Wall Street chose to ignore the threats to free trade, notably with Mexico and China, wrongly assuming they would never be carried out. ...read