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The public was practically giddy with hope that the economy would improve and Wall Street would jump as President Donald Trump took office and before he announced new world trade sanctions that tanked the market on Monday.

Americans are feeling optimistic that the stock market will rise and that the economy will grow, according to a Gallup poll taken in the weeks just before President Trump’s inauguration. Sixty-one percent of those polled predicted the stock market would rise in “the next six months,