Will the Trump Trade Inject Volatility into the Markets? [Video]

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Well, it’s been a week since Donald Trump won a decisive victory in the US presidential election, and he’s bringing an ambitious agenda to his second term in office. So what will the market implications be? Jeff Evans, Vice President, Director, and Lead of Empirical Research and PM Support at TD Asset Management, is here to talk about it. Jeff, thanks very much for joining us.

Thank you for having me on. It’s always a pleasure to be here.

So as Trump has mentioned, he’s promising a very aggressive tariff agenda, including a 10% tariff on all imports. What’s the potential impact of all of that?

Certainly. So tariffs were certainly one of the big policy changes in the first Trump administration, bringing in tariffs of up to 25% on a wide range of imports from China. He’s continued that theme, first of all, ratcheting it up, potentially talking as …