Apr 14, 2025 | Markets
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Republicans are looking at all options to help pay for President Donald Trump’s campaign promises on tax cuts, including increasing levies on the wealthiest Americans. “We’re going to see where the president is” on the issue,...
Apr 14, 2025 | Markets
Worries over global trade dragged the dollar to a six-month low on Monday, leaving investors bracing for more weakness ahead. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index extended declines for a fifth day, falling a total of 3.3% during that stretch. While Treasuries and stocks...
Apr 14, 2025 | Markets
Wall Street’s leading prognosticators have been humbled this year, with so many proven wrong about the damage President Donald Trump’s combative trade policies would do to the stock market. But despite all the convulsions and uncertainty, most equities strategists...
Apr 14, 2025 | Markets
Equity strategists at Citigroup Inc. lowered their view on US equities, saying the case to diversify away from the asset class is strengthening as the trade war undermines economic growth and earnings. Cracks in “US exceptionalism” will persist with the emergence of...
Apr 11, 2025 | Markets
A struggle by investors to predict President Donald Trump’s mercurial policies set trading records at Wall Street banks in the first quarter. But as industry leaders looked ahead, they had no great answers and scant optimism for what’s to come. Variations of...