What you need to know on Wall Street today
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The stock market doesn't revolve around Donald Trump, regardless of what the president tries to claim.
Sure, politicians and their supporters like to take credit for good news, no matter where it comes from. And it's true that Trump inspired a rally immediately after the election - something Business Insider noted in a recent assessment of the president's market proclamations - but for the past several months, other factors have lifted stocks to all-time highs.
Business Insider spoke with the managers of three multibillion-dollar funds, and they all say the so-called Trump bump has faded. While they think any tax plan that Congress passes could renew the president's influence on stocks, they credit the records to factors outside the president's control.
And interestingly enough, they each provided a different reason, which speaks to the fact that a great deal is going right for the US market outside Trump. Here's what they had to say.
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In fintech, Betterment, the investing startup that's attracting $12 million a day, is now valued at $1 billion in private market trading. Startup Tezos raised $232 million issuing a new digital currency, but now key players are fighting. And we asked cryptocurrency experts to respond to Jamie Dimon's bitcoin bashings - here's what they said.
In deal news, Google's parent company just led a $1 billion investment into Lyft - valuing it at $11 billion. An Alibaba-backed fintech company founded by a 34-year-old just had an amazing IPO. And MongoDB skyrocketed 30% on its first day of trading.
In London, police are raiding offices after people lost £18 million to "boiler room" scams. London Stock Exchange CEO Xavier Rolet - one of the City's loudest voices on Brexit - is to step down at the end of 2018. And Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein trolled the UK on Twitter.
Thirty years ago, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged by 22.6% - a gut-wrenching 508 points - to 1,738.74 on what is now referred to as Black Monday. Here's what you need to know:
- A look back at the 1987 stock market crash
- A Wall Streeter who started his career on Black Monday recalls the biggest one-day crash in stock market history
- Everyone forgets the most important thing about the Black Monday stock-market crash
- Trump claimed that he dumped all of his stocks right before the Black Monday crash in 1987
And in other markets news and views:
- The stock market is finally falling - and Apple is to blame
- Wall Street banks are starting to sound the alarm on a stock market correction
- The most bullish Apple analyst says to "buy into the iPhone 8 gloom and doom ahead of the iPhone X"
- The most important new Apple Watch feature has been shut down in China
- These 8 businesses seem safe from Amazon, according to investors
- Blue Apron is slipping after laying off hundreds of workers
- GOLDMAN SACHS: Here's the only strategy you need to crush earnings season
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