If a U.S.-China commerce deal is off the desk, avoid the inventory market, says Jeremy Siegel, Wharton Faculty professor of finance.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average misplaced greater than 250 factors after President Donald Trump indicated he would possibly wait till 2020 to strike a commerce take care of China. The White Home reportedly nonetheless plans on shifting forward with scheduled Dec. 15 tariffs on Chinese language items regardless of the latest efforts between the 2 nations to work up section certainly one of a commerce settlement.

If Trump would not attain a commerce take care of China and “the tariffs get placed on on Dec. 15 … I do not know if I wish to be round equities then,” Siegel stated on CNBC’s Closing Bell on Tuesday.

Trump’s feedback sparked a flight to secure belongings, pushing the yield on benchmark Treasury note to the lowest level since August. With no commerce decision between the world’s two largest economies, charges are sure to stay low and traders will gravitate in direction of dividend-paying shares, Siegel predicted.

“Yields…