Quote: "The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN."
Looks like this issue is more than rumour and this is going to affect stockmarkets in the second haflf of 2017 and would be medium term shortsignal.
If ever this discussion might end - how ever - stockmarkets will go up again.
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MAR 23 2017: US officials: Trump associates may have coordinated with Russians
April 01 2017 - Now ask yourself a simple question: Why is Donald Trump allways getting more and more aggressive against "China", Immigrants or Mexico, if ever he gets under serious Pressure about Trump/Flynn/Putin/U.S. Election?
The Mexican Peso ist the most perfect Indicator to follow up how "storng" Donald Trump is (as US-President).
From the European and Mexican point of view is any "Trump weakness" long term extremly positiv. Maybe any Flynn testimony might cause a short term sell off - but long term Traders and Investors needs to keep in mind that this bullmarket is based on strong economic fundamentals and even not on Donald Trump. Donald Trump is still fighting against globalisation. If ever he might be forced to resign stockmarkets will go up.
The logic could be, that any impeachment could cause shortterm huge selling pressure especially to US-Stockmarkets. But keep in mind to check at times the Mexican Peso what signal we might get from here.
APR 01 2017: Trump walks out before signing executive orders
Quote: (CNN)President Donald Trump walked out of an executive order signing ceremony Friday -- without actually signing the orders. During the signing ceremony, White House pool reporters asked Trump questions about his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has offered to testify on Russian involvement in the US election in return for immunity from prosecution. The President ignored the questions and moved to another room, only to be followed by Vice President Mike Pence, who picked up the folders containing the two executive orders. Trump later signed the pair of orders aimed at identifying and targeting foreign trade abuses, according to the White House, but behind closed doors. Source: edition.cnn.com/2017/03/31/politics/donald-trump-executive-order-signing-walk-out/index.html
APR 05 2017 - Quote: Castro: Trump associates will end up in jail Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) says that if he was a betting man, based on the evidence he's seen that some associates of President Donald Trump will go to jail for their ties to Russia's meddling in the US election.Source: CNN Source: edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/04/04/castro-russia-investigation-going-to-jail-tsr.cnn
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APR 05 2017 - Quote: In reversal, Bannon removed from National Security Council (CNN)Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's chief strategist, has been removed from his permanent seat at the National Security Council, multiple sources tell CNN, moving the council into a more traditional format. The decision, which one source with knowledge said was made by Trump himself, comes after the President in January authorized the reorganization of the National Security Council to include Bannon as a permanent member of the panel. Source: edition.cnn.com/2017/04/05/politics/steve-bannon-white-house-national-security-council/index.html
Justice Department was told to come up with reasons to fire Comey, reports say
Several lawmakers questioned the timing of Comey's removal because the FBI is investigating Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, including any possible links between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
Game over. Last exit before going to jail: Trump needs to resign before any investigation starts and might get pardon from Mike Pence als new U.S. President.
Comey agrees to testify in open hearing before Senate Intelligence Committee
Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee after Memorial Day. He'll likely be asked about the circumstances around his sudden firing as well as issues related to the panel's investigation of Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election. cnbc.com/2017/05/19/comey-agrees-to-testify-in-open-before-senate-intelligence-committee.html
Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly discussed setting up secret channel with Moscow Jared Kushner proposed the possibility of setting up a secret channel between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin, The Washington Post reports. Kushner is "under FBI scrutiny" in the Russia probe, NBC News previously reported.
The Trump team don't cooperate with Russia probes in general, obviously. For traders it means it could least weeks or month, until this issue matters. DJIA and Germany's DAX could move higher for a while before this issue affects stockmarket prices.
Playing games: If ever Russia shot down a US warplane at, before or after the G20 summit all 18 (western) of the G20 Nations are forced to back Donald Trump. Win win situation for both Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin facing growing opposition at home. nytimes.com/2017/06/19/world/middleeast/russia-syria.html?_r=0