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Wall Street shudders as Trump muses

The White House resident says he's considering breaking up big banks

Published Tue, May 2, 2017 · 09:50 PM

New York

FOR a brief moment, Wall Street stopped on Monday, as if time was suspended in an alternative reality.

President Donald Trump, for the first time as resident of the White House, said aloud that he was considering breaking up the nation's biggest banks. Of course, he had said it on the campaign trail, but this seemed different.

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