History indicates that investors should expect an overall gain in stocks for the rest of Trump’s term. But market returns have been lower when stocks were down in a president’

The index is on track to end the first 100 days since inauguration down approximately 8%, marking one of its worst performances for a post-inauguration period.

In the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, the stock market faced the largest overall drop since the same period in Richard Nixon's presidency. The S&P 500, the American benchmark index, was down 7.