It hasn't even been a week since Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election, and investors have high hopes for the president-elect's second term in the White House. All three major stock indexes and the price of bitcoin all hit record highs on Monday, and the dollar surged.
While some experts are predicting that Trump's second term will bring an economic boom to the U.S., others are warning that the president's agenda will have a varying impact depending on industries.
Eric Stein, the head investor at major asset manager Voya Investment Management, says there will be winners and losers resulting from Trump's various policies:
Taxes
Stein says the permanent extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts and a lower corporate tax rate as the president-elect has proposed are likely to spur growth (and inflation), benefiting stocks while pressuring bonds as long-term yields rise.
- Winners: US Manufacturers
- Losers: Bonds, Foreign Subsidiaries