After Trump applies pressure, Wall Street giant moves into Panama | Chattanooga Times Free Press

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : BlackRock is buying the ports through Global Infrastructure Partners, an investment firm it bought last year for almost $13 billion that owns and operates many ports, airports and data centers.
58% : In the past several days, executives at BlackRock, including Laurence D. Fink, its CEO, and a board member, Adebayo Ogunlesi, briefed Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others on the deal, according to two people involved in the deal.
51% : An investment group led by BlackRock, a giant U.S. asset manager, said it had agreed to buy two ports in Panama owned by a Hong Kong company that had become the focus of the tensions between Panama and Trump. BlackRock will buy the ports, which sit at either end of the canal, and more than 40 others from the Hong Kong conglomerate, CK Hutchison, for about $19 billion.
46% : Trump has frequently said he wants the United States to retake control of the waterway, which it ceded to Panama in 2000.
44% : Trump has also taken aim at the fees that the Panama Canal charges shipping companies to use the waterway.
21% : Though Trump has other complaints about the canal -- it charges too much, he contends -- the deal greatly relieves pressure on Panama, political analysts said.

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