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Goldman Sachs Exchanges

What investors expect from Trump

Goldman Sachs Exchanges

Goldman Sachs

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4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Goldman Sachs Research’s Chief US Economist David Mericle shares what investors are expecting under the second Trump administration and how those policy assumptions are reflected in market pricing.

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0:00.0

Donald Trump is set to take office in a month and a half. So what are investors expecting from the second Trump administration?

0:07.2

I'm Alison Nathan and this is Goldman Sachs exchanges. Here with me today is David Miracle, Chief U.S. economist with Goldman Sachs research. David, welcome back to the program.

0:15.2

Thank you very much, Allison. So obviously we've seen a very positive market reaction post the election of Donald Trump, at least in U.S. equities.

0:23.9

But here at Goldman Sachs, we took the initiative to actually try to survey investors to see what they are expecting.

0:31.1

So before we get into the findings of that survey, talk to us a little bit about the survey, how you made it, who did it go to? Give us some details.

0:38.9

Sure. So we have our own policy expectations for what might change under the second Trump

0:43.0

administration, but we wanted to understand what are investors thinking, what assumptions

0:48.3

underlying market pricing. And so in conjunction with our marquee team, we surveyed over 500 people and we asked them about

0:56.3

the whole range of issues that we think are most macroeconomically significant, immigration policy,

1:01.6

trade policy, and fiscal policy to try to get a sense of, are they looking for more or less

1:07.0

the same policy changes as us or where my views differ?

1:10.5

And so what are investors most nervous about in that survey? So we more or less the same policy changes as us or where my views differ.

1:14.3

And so what are investors most nervous about in that survey?

1:19.9

So we actually asked this question, which of the potential policy changes worry you the most in terms of their macroeconomic consequences for 2025?

1:23.3

The runaway winner with 60% of the vote was the prospect of a universal 10 or 20% tariff on

1:30.7

all goods from all countries.

1:33.0

That's not our baseline.

1:34.5

It's not most investors baseline either, but that was cited as the top risk.

1:39.6

Other big risks, which came in quite a bit lower on the ranking, were concerns about fiscal sustainability,

1:45.8

being triggered by some sort of fiscal move, or concerns about deportations of unauthorized immigrants,

1:51.9

having a negative effect on growth and a positive effect on wages and inflation.

1:56.0

Trump already announced 25% tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada. I don't think we were expecting

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