Stocks Slide Further As Wall Street Shudders At Ongoing Trade War And Trump's Attacks On Powell

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Trump's toying with ousting Powell stands on shaky legal footing and, as a potential historic first, it is far from unanimously supported amongst Republican leaders.
48% : I think that Jay Powell and President Trump need to sit down and, once again, have a hug and a cup of hot cocoa and work it out." "The open question is how to accurately quantify the effect on asset class prices before the dust settles and the extent of tariffs levied against trading partners is actually established," Oppenheimer's chief investment strategist John Stoltzfus wrote in a Monday note to clients.

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