President Donald Trump has made tariffs the centerpiece of his economic policy agenda, and his tariff policies have gotten mixed reviews from investors and economists.

President Donald Trump seems willing to spend “financial markets capital” whenever stocks are up, say strategists at GlobalData, TS Lombard.

Markets had dismissed tariff risks under the assumption that Trump would follow an earlier pattern and back off, in what became known as the so-called TACO trade. That allowed stocks to reach new record-high territory recently, marking a stunning rebound from the collapse triggered by his “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs in April.

Japan and Europe are two of the U.S.’s largest trading partners and now that the markets have some certainty around trade, it’s back to “risk-on” for investors, according to Jim Reid’s team at Deutsche Bank.

The president complained that other countries weren’t coming to the table with trade offers that were good enough for the U.S.

Wall Street loves a catchy acronym, and the “TACO trade” has captured the mood as investors and analysts attempt to make sense of the roller-coaster market action that has followed President ...

Tariff Man is back again — and so is Wall Street’s TACO trade. President Donald Trump is once more threatening to lob massive duties on a wide swath of US imports, everything from copper and pharmaceuticals to goods from Japan and Russia. Yet Wall ...

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One thing we’ve learned about US President Donald Trump in the first six months of his second term is that there’s a big difference between what he threatens to do and what ends up happening. He threatens, say, a sweeping tariff, and what eventually becomes real is somewhat less severe than that tariff.