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Fortune
Catherina Gioino

Trump rings opening bell for Trump Accounts as Treasury commits $1.4 billion in seed money

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Monday marked a historic day at the White House for two reasons: it was the first time a sitting president rang the opening bell of the stock market from the Oval Office, and the occasion was used to mark the launch of Trump Accounts, the new children’s investment program at the center of the administration’s economic messaging.

President Donald Trump rang the bell jointly for the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq (that itself a first, since the two exchanges had never opened trading together) surrounded by Cabinet officials, CEOs and the Dell billionaire family behind the largest private gift to the program.

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