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How post-election fiscal stimulus might affect US equities

Investors’ recent fixation on the US election and the effect it might have on the shape of future fiscal stimulus suggests that markets would react positively to a Democratic clean sweep. But whilst day-to-day movements in markets are likely to be driven by political developments in the short term, we suspect that economic developments will have a bigger impact on US equities in the longer term.

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