From TACO to TART? US stock futures sink as Trump threatens blanket 15% to 20% tariffs
S&P 500 futures careened lower on Thursday evening after President Donald Trump suggested that he’s mulling blanket tariffs of 15% to 20% (versus the current 10%) in an NBC interview . That was shortl...
Trump’s tax bill gives Anduril a monopoly on “autonomous” border surveillance towers
Tucked into President Trump’s tax bill , which was singed into law last week, is $6 billion allocated for “border security, technology and screening,” a key piece of his administration’s plan to restr...
Delta surges as it reinstates a full-year outlook and says demand is stabilizing
began the year saying that it had the potential to be its best fiscal year in a century. That dream fizzled out within three months amid “ uncertainty around global trade .” The airline reported its s...
Trump’s copper tariff will weigh heaviest on Chile
President Trump announced plans on Tuesday to introduce a 50% tariff on copper imports in a bid to boost national production of the metal, sending US copper prices up 13% to an all-time high of ~$5.69...
Eli Lilly is fattening its stockpiles of GLP-1s to prevent tariffs from trimming its profits
As the threat of tariffs looms over the pharmaceutical industry, it appears isn’t taking any chances with its top revenue driver. As of May of this year, the US has imported nearly 3x as many peptide...
President Trump threatens 10% additional tariffs on countries backing “anti-American” BRICS policies
In a Truth Social post Sunday night, President Trump warned that any country supporting the “Anti-American policies of BRICS” would face an additional 10% tariff, with “no exceptions.” The threat foll...
US stocks dip as Trump’s tariff letters dent optimism
Suddenly it sounds a lot more like early April, with high tariffs being bandied about and stocks moving lower. But as President Trump sent letters to different countries informing them what rate their...
Japanese automakers hit a speed bump on Trump’s latest tariff threat
Japanese car companies are trading lower on Monday following President Trump’s proposed 25% tariff on goods from Japan and South Korea. Shares of , , , and other major automakers from the US’s fifth-l...
Stocks slip further after new Trump tariff threats
President Trump threatened new 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea early Monday afternoon, worsening what had been a run-of-the-mill market sell-off for the . The slump gathered pace after the presid...
How Trump 2.0’s trade war is very different compared to his first term
Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the, if not the best, sources for information and analysis on trade and capital flows, charted the difference between Presiden...
Semi stocks start the week soft as White House reportedly plans stronger curbs on China’s access to AI chips
Semiconductor stocks are in the red on the heels of a report from Bloomberg that the Trump administration is cracking down on China’s ability to access AI chips via Malaysia and Thailand by curbing th...
US chip designers surge as Commerce Department reverses restrictions on business in China
A couple of US semiconductor-adjacent companies are jumping on Thursday amid thawing on a contentious front in the US-China trade war: advanced technology. and are surging after the Commerce Departme...
US stocks climb on trade agreement with Vietnam
US stocks steadily gained throughout the day, buoyed by US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a trade deal with Vietnam. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% to close at a record high, the Nasdaq 100 gained 0....
Nike shares pop on new US-Vietnam trade agreement
shares were up as much as 4% upon US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new trade agreement with key manufacturing partner Vietnam. It then gave back all of those gains after he shared the det...
Rivian Q2 deliveries plunged 23% from last year
EV maker ticked down Wednesday after posting disappointing second-quarter production and delivery totals. Rivian, squeezed by tariff costs and stiffer competition because of rivals’ big incentives, d...
GM and Ford climb on strong second-quarter sales ahead of expected tariff price hikes
The second quarter may have been filled with stock-shaking tariff announcements, but automakers have reaped the benefits of panic buying. and released Q2 sales figures on Tuesday, and both Detroit c...
Lucid and Rivian are trading lower as Senate Republicans work to appease tax bill holdouts
and are both down on Tuesday as investors watch Senate Republicans work feverishly to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday told reporters that Re...
Tesla sinks after Trump threatens to have “DOGE take a good, hard, look” at Musk subsidies
It appears CEO Elon Musk has sufficiently poked the bear — again. President Donald Trump took to his social media platform in the middle of the night to criticize Musk’s government subsidies , threat...
US stocks set more records on trade progress
A quarter that started with US stocks falling out of bed ended with the S&P 500 booking a double-digit gain amid more signs of progress on agreements that may help avoid trade wars flaring up again. T...
Tesla and other EV makers may have to say goodbye to $7,500 EV credit sooner than expected
The Senate’s newly released version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” might be even worse news for and the rest of the electric vehicle industry than the initial one. Rather than eliminating...