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Here are threereasons Congress is more important to your finances than Trump in 2025.
Sustainable stock market performance is enhanced by stable fiscal, monetary, trade and regulatory policies.
When policies veer from these fundamentals, long-term performance suffers.
Nevertheless, Congress wields considerable power, said David Materazzi, CEO ofGalileo FX, an automatic trading platform.
Materazzi has more than 15 years of executive experience in the equity and currency markets.
Congress pulls the strings in banking, healthcare and energy, Materazzi said.
One law can create winners or destroy companies overnight.
If youre not watching, youre walking blindfolded into traffic.
And without passed legislation, the presidents powers are limited.
Conventional wisdom assumes that a single-party-controlled government means that itsmore aggressive economic and spending policieswill prevail.
However, thats not always the case.
Partisan makeups matter for this reason but so do the coalitions inside the partisan divide, Siggins explained.
The House is Republican-led, but it has a lot of moderates who may hold upimmigration or pro-life legislation.
Economic and spending policiesthat affect consumer finances in 2025 may also depend on how moderate Congressional Republicans vote.
The question is What will those policies be?'
However, the impact on consumers depends on which policies Congress prioritizes.
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