Americans are signaling optimism about the economy now that President Donald Trump is back in office, with majorities expecting economic and stock market growth.

Americans are more bullish on the U.S. economy and the stock market and more hopeful about falling inflation and borrowing costs than they have been in a decade or more, including in the heyday of Donald Trump's first presidency,

The public was practically giddy with hope that the economy would improve and Wall Street would jump as President Donald Trump took office and before he announced new world trade sanctions that tanked the market on Monday. In a new survey on Monday, Gallup said expectations for economic growth were at a seven-year high and a record high for stocks.

Americans are feeling optimistic that the stock market will rise and that the economy will grow, according to a Gallup poll taken in the weeks just before President Trump’s inauguration. Sixty-one percent of those polled predicted the stock market would rise in “the next six months,