To The Moon

By Nick Timiraos, Jack Pitcher and Chelsey Dulaney. Financial markets have flashed an ominous message this month about President Trump's ambitious and improvisational bid to reshape global trade: Be careful what you wish for.Volatility in Treasury markets and unexpected weakness in the dollar suggest that what began as a trade conflict could morph into a more dangerous "capital war." The clash threatens to raise U.S. borrowing costs by undermining Washington's long-standing financial primacy, which for years has drawn trillions of dollars of foreign funds into the country."This idea that you can break trade, and not break the capital flow side, is a fantasy," said Steven Blitz, chief U.S. economist at GlobalData TS Lombard.The dollar began the year looking potentially as overvalued as it had been since the 1980s, and Treasury yields remain in the middle of their trading range over the past two years, said Clarida, who is now a senior adviser at bond giant Pimco

Trade tensions between the U.S. and China are escalating rapidly. Wall Street could be the next battleground.During his first term, President Trump explored the idea of delisting Chinese stocks from U.S. exchanges, eventually signing an executive order that prohibited Americans from investing in some Chinese companies the U.S. said had aided China's military. In a recent interview, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declined to rule out a broader ban."I think everything's on the table," Bessent said on Fox Business, when asked if the government would go as far as barring all Chinese stocks from trading on U.S. exchanges. "That'll be President Trump's decision.". A broad delisting of Chinese companies could have serious consequences for financial markets in both countries. Here's what you need to know:. How do American investors typically invest in Chinese stocks?A bank or broker holds underlying stock in a company and issues ADRs that track the price of those shares. American investors c

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'What we are going through now is worse than when former President Nixon took us off the gold standard in August 1971,' strategist says. The mighty dollar, ordinarily a safe haven during times of market-based stress, is falling apart and its ongoing year-to-date slide is pointing to a much bigger problem for all U.S. assets."What we are going through now is worse than when former President Nixon took us off the gold standard in August 1971," said Marc Chandler, the New York-based chief market strategist for Bannockburn Global Forex. "The biggest damage right now is to the U.S. brand," he said, likening the harm done by tariff-driven volatility to the Coca-Cola Co.'s 1985 move toward "New Coke," a reformulated version of its famous drink, which led to consumer backlash.As of afternoon trading in New York, the ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, a measure of the U.S. currency against a basket of

Bitcoin has swung wildly over the last week as traders scramble to get ahead of a “crisis scenario” for the bitcoin price.The bitcoin price has dropped to lows not seen since early November, with pani

Trump's approach risks eroding global confidence in the U.S., Ackman said. Bill Ackman, one of President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders among major hedge-fund managers, published a post on X on Sunday urging a "90-day timeout" on some of the tariffs announced by the White House last week.By slapping both U.S. allies and foes alike with disproportionate tariffs, Trump was risking an "economic nuclear winter" and eroding global confidence in the U.S. as a trading partner, a place to do business and as an attractive destination for investment capital, Ackman said.Ackman's comments came as U.S. stock futures opened sharply lower on Sunday evening, pointing to a third straight session of stock-market carnage on Monday."The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day timeout, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country," Ackman said.Otherwise, the U.S. was headed for a "self-induced, economic nuclear winter, an