President-elect Donald Trump is expected to ring the NYSE opening bell on Dec. 12, marking a high-profile return to New York.
President-elect Donald Trump will mark the ceremonial start of trading at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Dec. 12 by ringing the opening bell, The Epoch Times has learned.
The planned ringing of the opening bell, which had not been officially announced by the time of this article’s reporting, will be a high-profile event for Trump, a born-and-bred New Yorker who left the city during his presidency to establish residency in Florida.
Trump’s return to New York will likely garner significant attention, as did former President Ronald Reagan’s ringing of the opening bell, which in 1985 marked the first time that a sitting U.S. president performed the ceremonial gesture. While the president-elect’s wife, former and future first lady Melania Trump, performed the honor during her husband’s first term in office to promote her “Be Best” initiative, it will be a first for Donald Trump.
Plans for the ceremony follow a significant post-election surge in U.S. stock markets, reflecting investor optimism over Donald Trump’s economic policies.
On Nov. 5, the benchmark S&P 500 experienced its best day in nearly two years, rallying