Somehow, I suspect the president’s new “Look at me, I’m the world’s biggest populist” theme isn’t going to help with this:

U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey. The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only somewhat confident or not confident of his ability to handle a financial emergency.

Mind you, this is after a year in which the stock market did pretty darn well. Of course, a few more days like yesterday, and people might forget that anything went right for Obama on the economic front . . .