The US stock market is on track for its worst first 100 days of any presidential term since President Gerald Ford assumed office in 1974.

U.S. stocks closed out Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in the Oval Office on a sour note, with the president’s trade policies taking the blame for derailing a thriving market and stoking fears the world’s largest economy could slip toward recession.

President Donald Trump's second term has reached its 100-day milestone, and the performance of the S&P 500 during that period is the second-worst for an administration since 1945.