Mr. Trump’s stated commitments to reducing taxes and regulation, as well as to negotiating better trade deals and investing in infrastructure, have helped the Dow Jones industrial average climb to 19,833.68 at the close of trading on Dec. 28, about an 8.2 percent increase since Nov. 8. We’ve been focusing on names like Picasso, Josef Albers and Yves Klein,” said Javier Lumbreras, founder of the Artemundi Global Fund, a five-year closed-end art fund in New York that liquidated in 2015, producing an average net annual return of about 17.1 percent for investors, according to its website. The stock market has been buoyed by a surge in corporate earnings that began last year but is now accelerating.
Mr. Trump’s stated commitments to reducing taxes and regulation, as well as to negotiating better trade deals and investing in infrastructure, have helped the Dow Jones industrial average climb to 19,833.68 at the close of trading on Dec. 28, about an 8.2 percent increase since Nov. 8. The stock market has been buoyed by a surge in corporate earnings that began last year but is now accelerating.