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How Investors Are Trading the Election
As the U.S. presidential election gets closer, market “predictions” are showing up in stocks from energy to private prisons.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 10:08 a.m. Published Oct 12, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
As the U.S. presidential election gets closer, market “predictions” are showing up in stocks from energy to private prisons.
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How markets are trading the U.S. presidential election in November.
A look at what different stock and other market preferences suggests about who Wall Street expects to win the 2020 election, including:
- Energy
- Private prisons
- Student loans
- Health care
- Infrastructure
- Dollar
- Bitcoin
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