From the UK’s Financial Times:
The FT has created an index of companies that could be most affected by a Bernie Sanders presidency to test how Wall Street is reacting to the Democratic primaries. FT data journalist Brooke Fox explains
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The “Panic Index” explains how Bernie Sanders winning the US Presidential Election might affect markets, because of his anticipated socialist policy positions.
The idea is prefaced as a “thought experiment” and, bearing in mind the collapse in prices which occurred as a result of coronavirus, arguably, it is very hard to draw a directly causal link between any political event and market movements.
The idea in this video is that the relevant prices spike up when Bernie Sanders is doing better.
It remains to be seen if this proves to be related.
