Financial Markets May Be The Last Guardrail On Trump

Fuente: International Business Times

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell earlier this month AFP Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has ushered in sweeping changes to international geopolitics and US government administration with little regard for norms that have constrained predecessors. But there has been one source of restraint on a president determined to push the limits of US governance: financial markets. The stock market's response to Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement was "probably the most influential force to date" in tempering Trump's policies, said Terrence Guay, professor of international business at Pennsylvania State University.