Trump’s executive orders included overhauls to U.S. trade policy and declaring a national emergency at the southern border.
There’s Donald Trump the crypto champion, promising to unshackle an industry hit by a years-long regulatory crackdown. Then there’s Trump the memecoin, which created billions of dollars of instant paper wealth but earned sharp rebukes even from the industry that stands to gain perhaps the most from his presidency.
Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Tuesday, with the blue-chip Dow at a more than one-month high, as investors assessed President Donald Trump’s executive orders after taking office and awaited his first move on trade policy. In morning trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 423 points, or 1%, to 43,911.
From decorations to executive orders, the 47th president has taken an aggressive posture in attempting to remake government.
The only danger, from Wall Street’s perspective, is that the Trump team’s MAGA instincts and chaotic approach prevent a deregulatory boom. One appointment is emblematic of the coming shift. Gary Gensler,
President Donald Trump has followed through with another campaign trail promise by signing an executive order requiring federal employees to return to the office.
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The Trump administration is reportedly eyeing Chicago as an initial target for mass deportations, expected to begin as soon as Tuesday, though it has yet to materialize.
Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.
Among a series of executive orders President Donald Trump signed this week, he ordered federal employees of the executive branch to return to in-person work full-time, instituted a hiring freeze for many federal positions, and established a Department of Government Efficiency.