former president donald trump’s indictment by a new york grand jury is one more reason that congress which desperately needs to compromise will have a tough time doing so and that could spell trouble for the us stock market and economy on its own trump’s indictment might not seem like much of an issue for the stock market it comes however at a fraught moment a compromise between the us and democrats and republicans on the debt ceiling was never going to be easy there are just too many differences between the parties—some over how government money should be spent others simply due to political animus but the decision to indict the man who is effectively the face of the gop for many in the party suggests that a middle ground will be even harder to find