100 days of Trump 2.0 in charts: Fed rate cuts, S&P 500 crash and questions over Treasuries

'Veneer of US "exceptionalism" has been thoroughly routed'

Eve Maddock-Jones
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The 45th and 47th president of the US, Donald Trump, took to the stage at his celebratory rally in Michigan to rapturous applause yesterday (29 April) as he marked the 100th day of his second White House tenure.

"I am not going anywhere," was the president's rally cry from the stage and while the cheers of support from inside the warehouse were rapturous, the noise outside is one of worry, concern and stress over what the next 1,359 days holds. Musk concedes tariff's negative impact on Tesla as carmaker misses Q1 earnings targets Last year, markets were dealing with a different type of uncertainty: whether they would be pricing in another four years Democratic rule and if Joe Biden, then Kamala Harris, could lead the US to new highs. Or, if they would see the return of Trump, who had been ...

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