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11 Mar 2025

Trump’s approval rating goes negative for first time in second term

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11 Mar 2025

Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Source: Bloomberg Markets

11 Mar 2025

Tariffs "cheat sheet" updated

Source: Bloomberg

11 Mar 2025

Trump 2.0 vs. Trump 1.0

The full market picture by Fund Strat Interesting to link this to Trump's comments yesterday on FoxNews: "There could be a little disruption (…) Look, what I have to do is build a strong country. You can't really watch the stock market. If you look at China, they have a 100 year perspective. We go by quarters. And you can't go by that”. Not the same kind of Trump's put than in 2017...

10 Mar 2025

Trump:

"There could be a little disruption. Look, what I have to do is build a strong country. You can't really watch the stock market. If you look at China, they have a 100 year perspective. We go by quarters. And you can't go by that." Source: Aaron Rupar @atrupar on X

10 Mar 2025

Trump officially signed an executive order to create a Strategic $BTC Bitcoin Reserve.

How $BTC's market cap evolved over time👇 Source: Investing visuals @ZeevyInvesting

10 Mar 2025

Equity markets are fearful of far more than some marginal tariff tensions.

Macro data this week broadly speaking reinforced the growth scare (red line below) while inflation anxiety is back way up... Source: www.zerohedge.com, Bloomberg

7 Mar 2025

The US labour market is on recession alert as job market cools with large discrepancies between establishment survey and household survey.

👉 The establishment survey showed 151,000 new jobs in Feb, LESS than expected. 👉 According to the household survey, 588,000 jobs were cut in Feb, which is why the unemployment rate has risen to 4.1%, although the participation rate has also fallen from 62.6% to 62.4%. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

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