Moving forward Expectations are high for a phone call between President Trump and President Xi Jinping at 9 AM ET, as a thawing of U.S.-China tensions is said to be in the making. In recent weeks, negotiations between the two sides have taken place at a high level, including meetings between Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with their Chinese counterparts. A lot is on the agenda, and if everything goes to schedule, a trip by Trump to C ...

Another day, another series of pronouncements from the former (and potentially future) President, Donald J. Trump, sending ripples, or perhaps more accurately, seismic waves, through the global financial landscape. For those invested in the stock market, it’s less a steady climb and more a perpetual rollercoaster, with each twist and turn dictated by a Truth Social post or a spontaneous declaration. The latest alerts paint a picture of a market trying to decipher a leader who, with one breath, touts a trade ...