#Financial Markets

“Representatives of President Trump’s family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of crypto exchange Binance, a move that would put Trump in business with the firm that pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering requirements,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The U.S. has taken its most aggressive step yet to cripple Russia’s economy and financial system, announcing a ban on transactions with Russia’s central bank and new sanctions on the Russian Direct Investment Fund and its chief executive Kirill Dmitriev,” the Financial Times reports. “The move by

“So far in his young presidency, President Joe Biden has been one of the best friends the stock market has ever had,” CNBC reports. “Better, in fact, than any president before him going back to at least the 1950s and the Dwight Eisenhower administration, as the 46th chief executive has witnessed

Bloomberg: “The turmoil has damaged Trump’s ranking when it comes to equity returns. The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 32 percent rally during his first year gave him the third-best start by a president going back more than 100 years. But tack on the turmoil since January and he drops to the

Since President Trump is fond of touting his stock market record, here’s what the S&P 500 has done since inauguration for him vs. during same period in Barack Obama’s presidency.