Every investor, rich and poor, woke up with a splitting headache this morning after President Trump made good on his tariff threats, smacking 25% duties on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% levy on China.
As you would imagine, stocks tumbled, but losses eased after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum cut a last-minute deal, promising to send 10,000 soldiers to the border in exchange for a one-month delay on the Mexico tariffs. The S&P 500 dropped 0.5%, the Nasdaq sank 0.8%, and the Dow barely moved an inch after dropping like a rock at market open.
The auto sector broke down on fears that higher tariffs would jack up car prices. GM, Ford, and Toyota all saw red before paring back some losses after the Mexico delay. Even Tesla (which doesn’t build a single car in Canada or Mexico) dropped because Elon’s EV empire still sources plenty of parts from those regions.
And speaking of parts, this is where things could get ugly. Mexico exported $124.5 billion worth of auto components last year, with over half of those parts heading straight to the U.S. A report from TD Economics estimates that if tariffs stick, the average price of a new car in the U.S. could jump $3,000 (so congrats if you just bought one, you didn’t get screwed over as bad as the next buyer). Worse, because parts often cross the border multiple times before a car is actually built, some could get taxed multiple times… meaning a simple brake pad might end up carrying more tariffs than an offshore bank account.
While stocks tripped over their own feet, gold investors cashed in on the chaos. The precious metal hit a record $2,872 per ounce before settling around $2,860 as traders jumped into their favorite safe haven. (Because even in 2025, with Bitcoin, AI stocks, and whatever else is trending, the universal panic button is still: BUY GOLD AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.)
In the Oval Office, Trump is now entertaining the idea of putting TikTok into a newly minted U.S. sovereign wealth fund (which makes you wonder if this was Donald’s plan for TikTok all along). During his second day back in office, Trump told reporters he’s considering a deal where the U.S. would own half of TikTok, as long as someone else steps up and buys it.
His top picks are Elon Musk, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and Microsoft… yes, the same Microsoft that tried (and failed) to buy TikTok back in 2020. Oracle, which already hosts TikTok’s U.S. data, has been floated as a frontrunner, but when asked about it last week, Trump shrugged it off. "No, not with Oracle. Numerous people are talking to me, very substantial people, about buying it," he said (probably trying to start the bidding war).
Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones isn’t loving Trump 2.0. On CNBC’s "Squawk Box," he warned that markets are in far worse shape than during Trump’s first term, saying, "There’s no room for mistakes." He pointed out that fixed income, forex, and equities have all changed dramatically in the last eight years, and any policy misstep could send things down the toilet. Thanks for the motivational speech Paul.
While most stocks struggled, Triumph Group had a field day, rising 34% after aerospace supplier Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners announced a $3 billion buyout deal at $26 per share.
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