US President Donald Trump talks to journalists while the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is held near him on the Air Force One on his return to Washington, DC, United States, March 9, 2025.
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President Donald Trump rejected the growing choir of CEO, political investors and decision -makers White House begs For greater clarity About its radical pricing program.
“They always say that.” We want clarity, “said Trump in a Fox News interview which broadcast on Sunday.
“They have a lot of clarity,” said the president “Sunday Morning Futures”, host Maria Bartiromo.
Calls to the Blank House of the Business World to provide more concrete advice, said Trump, are hardly just discussion points. “They just use that – like almost a sound bite.”
Pressed by Bartiromo on the question of whether there would be a “clarity for the business community”, Trump’s response was revealing.
“I think yes, but you know, the prices could increase over time, and they can go up, and you know, I don’t know if it’s a predictability.”
Bartiromo intervened: “It’s not clarity.”
One day after the full interview broadcast, the start of a new week of price-El economic uncertainty sent actions lower at the opening on Monday.
THE Industrial average Dow Jones lost 400 points or 1%. THE S&P 500 slipped 1.4% and the Nasdaq Composite lose 2%. Later in the morning, the S&P 500 stocks and the NASDAQ in charge of technology fell at their lowest levels since September 2024.
Trump’s comments finished a week marked by the unpredictability both on his prices and on the broader force of the American economy.
THE S&P 500 fell 3.10%, for its worst weekly brand since September. THE Dow fell 2.37%, while the Nasdaq Composite lose 3.45%.
In the center of the storm, Trump was stiff 25% Prices On imports from Canada and Mexico, which was initially interrupted for a month, then restarted on Tuesday, only to be mastered on Wednesday, then partially interrupted for a month on Thursday.
In the meantime, Trump And several managers of his administration have warned that the Americans could be in reserve for some economic tension – including higher price. But they insisted that any negative impact would be temporary.
Confusion surrounding AssetConstantly evolving commercial plans have left uncertain investors of what will follow.
Although Trump has minimized the impact of his unpredictable commercial policies on the domestic markets, Wall Street analysts did not do so.
“We still have no clarity on the economy to move forward with Trump’s troubles,” wrote Byron Anderson, head of fixed income titles Laffer Tengler Investments.
“The more chaos and Trump’s disorders, the more likely that we may have a negative data trend,” he wrote in a note on Friday.
The White House did not respond to a request for comments on Trump’s latest remarks on its prices, or on the generalized confusion surrounding its program.
The coming week promises a lot of news economic data To test competing theories.
On Monday is the New York FED statement on consumer expectations, followed by the publication on Wednesday of the consumer price index of February.
Thursday will see a new set of data on producers’ prices, before ending the week with a reading of the feeling of consumers of the University of Michigan on Friday.
Now, while the Trump administration is embarking on a month’s re -evaluation of American trade relations around the world, the negative impacts of uncertainty, felt in recent weeks, could be amplified.
“The markets fear uncertainty more than they fear bad news,” wrote Mark Malek, director of investments at Siebert Financial. “Prices of 25% are easier to assess than” perhaps 10%, perhaps more, perhaps less. “”
It is not only companies and investors who need greater clarity before making major decisions.
The federal reserve does it too.
President Jerome Powell on Friday said the central bank is “well placed to wait for greater clarity” while the Trump administration implements “significant policy changes in four separate areas: trade, immigration, budgetary policy and regulations”.
Speaking at the American monetary policy forum, Powell said it would be “the net effect of these policy changes that will import for the economy and for the path of monetary policy”.
For the moment, he said, “uncertainty about changes and their probable effects remains high”.
The Fed, like so many others, is “focused on the separation of the noise signal as the prospects evolve,” he added.
– Jesse Pound of CNBC contributed the reports.