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There seem to be some cracks forming in the Oval Office bromance. It took a trade war, but Elon Musk and Donald Trump have reportedly started to tiff.
Musk is also throwing punches at Peter Navarro. He called Trumpâs top trade adviser âdumber than a sack of bricks.â
As for the bruised stock market, chip shares climbed back up a bit again after taking a brutal blow. Nvidia popped 8% before going back down.
And itâs not just chips getting back up. There was a fleeting Big Tech rally.
Companies across a variety of industries are adding fees explicitly tied to Trumpâs tariffs. Here are eight firms adding tariff surcharges.
Billionaire CEOs have a lot to say about tariffs
Everyone is buzzing over this trade war, including Americaâs highest paid executives and CEOs. Big names in finance are predicting a recession â and thatâs not making the top dogs in business happy.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sounded the alarm, warning that the trade policy will likely spike inflation and slow down growth. The CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management Bill Ackman said that by placing large tariffs on U.S. allies and enemies alike, âwe are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.â
Even Musk, the worldâs most prominent Trump supporter, is displeased with the tariffs.
Ken Griffin, Bahram Akradi, Ray Dalio, Larry Fink, and many more are sounding off. Quartzâs Ben Kesslen rounded them all up for you.
Get ready for a âCategory 5 Price Stormâ
Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives is not sugarcoating the upcoming economic forecast for U.S. consumers.
He flagged the âCategory 5 Price Stormâ thatâs about to hit the U.S. and told Americans to brace for punishing price increases as the trade war heats up.
He got really bleak, saying the âeconomic pain that will be brought by these tariffsâ is âhard to describe.â And he warned the tariffs would âessentially take the U.S. tech industry back a decade in the process while China steamrolls ahead.â
âSaying we can just make this in the USA is a statement that incredibly understates the complexity of the Asia supply chain,â Ives wrote. âItâs the foundation the U.S. tech world is built on and these tariffs are flipping a boat upside down in the ocean with no life rafts telling U.S. tech/auto companies such as Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, GM, AMD among so many others âgood luck!ââ You can read more of his warning here.
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