“The Dow Jones Industrial just closed above 29,000! You are so lucky to have me as your President [wink emoji] With Joe Hiden’ it would crash [worried emoji]” – Twitter followers of US President Donald Trump will have recognised his style in this post from Wednesday. Equity markets and job statistics are the two metrics on which Trump is betting his re-election in November. US unemployment is receding after peaking in April, but Friday’s good figures still leave 8.4 per cent of Americans out of work – more than twice as many as before Covid-19 emerged. Many will still be when…

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