The stock market tumbled by the largest amount in a president's first 100 days in office since Richard Nixon's second term began in 1973 under Donald Trump, new research shows.

The S&P 500 is down 7.3% in that period and also had its worst first 100 days since Nixon's second term. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is down 11%, its worst start for a presidency since George ...

Donald Trump’s first 100 days are the worst for the stock market since Richard Nixon, and consumer confidence is the lowest it has been since may 2020.

Nixon would later resign in 1974 because of the Watergate scandal. On average, the S&P 500 rises 2.1% in the first 100 days for any president, in data of postelection years going from 1944 through ...

Nixon saw a -9.9% fall in the S&P at the beginning of his second term in 1973, “after a series of economic measures he took to combat inflation resulted in the 1973 to 1975 recession,” noted ...

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office are the worst for the stock market for the start of a president's four-year term since the 1970s. The S&P 500's 7.9% drop from when Trump was ...