Why Trump should be worried about what the stock market is saying | CNN Business

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Clues about how this election cliffhanger will end may be hiding in an unlikely place: Your 401(k).

As people try to make sense of the latest swings in prediction markets and dramatic shifts in the share price in former President Donald Trump’s social media company, there’s a far simpler predictor with a surprisingly strong track record.

It finds that the party in the White House tends to stay in power when the US stock market rises ahead of a presidential election.

In all but two elections since 1944, the

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