WASHINGTON (TNND) — 100 days in office and $5 + trillion in investments. The White House released a statement Tuesday touting President Trump for securing trillions in new U.S.-based investments, setting the stage for a new age of American prosperity. "President Trump is America's businessman and chief, and that's why these trillions of dollars in investments are flooding to our country," said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.Jared Pincin, an economics professor at Cedarville University, told us that, from manufacturing to artificial intelligence, dozens of companies like Apple, Eli Lilly,...
Home prices rose again in February as limited supply continued to prop up the market amid high mortgage rates and affordability challenges. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index rose 0.3% over the prior month in February on a seasonally adjusted basis, easing from the 0.5% monthly gain recorded in January. On an annual basis, prices nationally increased 3.9%, less than the 4.1% seen in January. The index tracking home prices in the 20 largest US cities rose 0.4% in February from January, matching the monthly Bloomberg consensus estimate....
It's been one of the most chaotic stretches for US markets in recent memory. And the massive surge in long-term Treasury yields has served as yet another example of the bizarre trading action in the aftermath of Trump's tariff-fueled "Liberation Day." The 10-year yield (^TNX) jumped 17 basis points to kick off the week, a massive 34 basis point swing from a low of 3.87% to a high of 4.21%. The yield extended those gains on Tuesday, climbing as much as 10 basis points to hover at around 4.25%. Similarly,...
The stock market has been reeling since Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement back on April 2. But even before this shock announcement tipped the Nasdaq into a bear market and sent the S&P 500 down 10% in two trading days, stocks had struggled this year as the reality of Trump's desire to impose tariffs on a wide range of partners and a wide range of goods was increasingly resolute. In turn, investors had spent much of this year searching for the "Trump put," or the level in the stock market...
Orders for durable goods rose 0.9% in February, well above economists' expectations for a 1% decline in the month. Meanwhile, core capital goods orders fell 0.3% in February, below the 0.2% expected, while shipments of capital goods increased 0.9%, higher than the 0.2% economists had expected. The metrics are closely watched, as they feed into the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But following Wednesday's release, economists at Goldman Sachs wrote that they left their first quarter GDP forecast of 1.3% annualized growth for the US economy "unchanged." Renaissance Macro head of...