“A period difficult to invest.”
“Everyone is paralyzed.”
“I’m sorry, I can’t be particularly positive.”
“The chaos that reigned right now makes everyone sits on their hands.”
He is CEO CEO Ken Griffin, on the CEO of Semiconductor Hassane El-Khoury, the CEO of Franklin Templeton Jenny Johnson and the CEO of the private market of Nasdaq, Tom Callahan, on the world of Donald Trump. Their comments during last week capture growing concern among business leaders, one month in a presidency that many of them had applauded.
“What decision do you make?” Do you want to go left or right? El-Khoury told Semaor in an interview this week. “Are we going to develop the business?” Well, I don’t know. Are there any prices or not? (Since this interview, Trump has threatened to double his own rates offered at 10% on China and put a 25% levy from European products.)
The optimism of the CEOs fades while Trump goes ahead with commercial restrictions, while deregulation adapted to companies has not yet materialized. The confidence of American consumer in January has recorded its greatest decrease of a month since November 2023. The American stock market, the favorite proxy of Long Trump for economic power, is lower than its inauguration, major indices in Europe, China, Mexico and Canada – all targets of the President’s planned prices.
Microsoft-including CEO, Satya Nadella, joined the post-electoral pilgrimage to Mar-A-Lago- White House To facilitate the export limits of AI chips to allied or neutral countries. Chevron could lose a lucrative drilling concession in Venezuela on Trump’s immigration with the leader of this country.
Trump choices to manage the main regulatory organizations, including those who supervise the antitrust and the waves, appear likely to continue the priorities to apply the Biden era While adding new ideologically conducted repressions and companies of business purity. Her choice to manage the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, reaffirmed that the severe merger directives set up by her predecessor, Lina Khan, who will not do much for mergers and acquisitions, already at her slowest start in a decade.
The Trump administration continued last month to block the redemption of Juniper by Hpe, and said in a judicial Last week, it is unlikely that it will settle a legal action brought by the Biden administration aimed at blocking a merger in travel software.
“There is no serious CEO in America who would prefer disastrous and negative growth policies from the previous administration on pro-growth policies, with low tax and low regulation of President Trump,” said White House spokesman Harrison Fields. “In just four weeks, more than 1 billion of dollars in private investment returned to our country, and it is the direct result of the Trump effect, which presents the welcome carpet for investment.”
Business leaders who make decisions on multi-year deadlines find it difficult to decide to make Trump seriously, literally or neither plan a future after 2028. “You cannot move a factory overnight,” said El-Khoury. “It takes four years to build a fab.”
ONSEMI obtains approximately a third of its revenues each of the United States, Japan and China, where half of its buyers are companies gather there for cars or phones for export. “Do you know? He said Trump’s pricing threats, which expanded on Wednesday to include a 25% proposed levy on European goods. “Or are you starting to make scenarios?” It takes a lot of time and bandwidth. »»