• Apr 10, 2025

Asian, European Stock Indexes Rise After Trump Tariffs Pause

Overseas stock indexes are rallying after President Donald Trump said he would pause "reciprocal" tariffs for 90 days for all trading partners except China. U.S. stock futures are pulling back after soaring yesterday on the news.

  • Apr 10, 2025

Explainer-What just happened in the U.S. Treasury market?

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pause the hefty duties he had said he would impose on dozens of countries one week ago followed turmoil in financial markets that included an acute selloff in the $29 trillion Treasury market. Trump said on Wednesday the bond market had recovered well after investors became queasy about it in reaction to his tariff announcements. "The bond market now is beautiful," he told reporters.

  • Apr 10, 2025

Wall Street's response to tariff shock: client calls and bonus worries

With markets crashing after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his latest tariffs, Citigroup’s banking head Viswas Raghavan called a global meeting of senior bankers on Monday and told them to get on the phone with their clients. Raghavan's message was simple, according to one banker on the call: Stay close to clients because if you do not, a competitor will. Raghavan told them to assure clients that Citi, which nearly collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis, had plenty of funds this time to weather the tariff storm, said the banker, one of two who recounted the call.