Hillary Clinton is the favourite, but one in six UK investors back Donald Trump
Donald Trump has left audiences aghast at his plans for what would happen should he win the keys to the White House later this year.
Economically, politically and philosophically, analysts have said he is all over the place. A low-tax, small-government candidate, with a curiously protectionist economic agenda that would build metaphorical and literal walls around bits of the United States, it is safe to say he has proved divisive.
His version of populism – and how close he is to being able to put that in practice – has the world on the back foot. The Economist Intelligence Unit recently said a Donald Trump election victory was as much of a danger to the world economy as the rising threat of terrorism.
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Despite all that, one in six UK investors – hard-headed business-followers who know all about risk and uncertainty – say they want Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, to win the US Presidential election on 8 November.
In a poll of over 1,800 personal investors for The Share Centre, Trump won the support of a not inconsiderable minority, questioning the idea that the Donald only holds sway in a certain section of the States.
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To be fair, sixty per cent of investors said they would back Hillary Clinton and two-thirds were actively worried about Trump romping home to victory.
Given his wall-building, make-Mexico-pay-for-it plans, maybe that one-sixth were just shifting their portfolio into US infrastructure funds.