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Raymond James acknowledged Trump’s resignation is a “low probability event,” CNN Business reported. But the firm said in the “possible” event of the president stepping down it predicted Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceTrump embarks on Twitter spree amid impeachment inquiry, Syria outrage Graham: I’m seeking to make Trump successful ‘but not at all costs’ Kurdish group PKK pens open letter rebuking Trump’s comparison to ISIS MORE will help the market stabilize. 

“After the initial shock, we think the market rallies as Pence is a predictable, traditional, conservative choice,” CNN Business reported the firm wrote in a report published Wednesday evening.

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Raymond James analyst Chris Meekins told CNN Business that the company wrote the report because people in Washington keep talking about the possibility.

“Independently, different people associated with Trump’s orbit brought this idea up unsolicited,” Meekins said.

The investment firm asserted that drug makers, defense contractors and other businesses associated with China would excel if Trump resigned, if the country believes it will impede on the chances a Democrat will win the White House or the GOP will maintain control of the Senate, CNN Business reported.

“The markets can live happily with Pence, on trade in particular,” Greg Valliere, chief U.S. policy strategist at AGF Investments, told CNN Business. “Pence would get along far better with the Chamber of Commerce and the free trade advocates. He’d shy away from tariffs.”

If Trump were to step down, Pence would become president, and the analysts predict former United Nations ambassador Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyPoll shows Michelle Obama would lead in New Hampshire if she entered 2020 Democratic race Five ways Trump’s Syria decision spells trouble Tulsi Gabbard rips Trump’s Syria decision: ‘Kurds are now paying the price’ MORE would join Pence on the ballot in 2020 as a vice presidential candidate, according to The Detroit News.

“Trump has become so erratic and unpredictable that it’s annoying for the markets,” CNN Business said Valliere added. “Pence is a boring, conservative, pro-business Midwesterner.”

CNN Business noted it cannot be known in advance how impeachment would affect the stock market, but the market would primarily be affected by the economy’s and corporate profit’s growth.

The president has argued that his impeachment would cause the stock market to “crash.”

“Do you think it was luck that got us to the best Stock Market and Economy in our history. It wasn’t,” Trump tweeted in September.