Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Other Billionaires at the Inauguration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : DOGE's first cutThough Elon Musk has long been regarded as the leader of the Trump cost-cutting panel known as the Department of Government Efficiency, he actually had a partner: Vivek Ramaswamy, the investor and right-wing social activist.
59% : Executive orders roil the marketsPresident Trump has promised that his return to office will unleash a bonanza of investing and growth.
56% : The European Union hopes to convince Trump to ease A.I. chip curbs.
54% : (Bloomberg)Investors including Brookfield and the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky have reportedly been invited by Berlin to bid for the state-owned utility Uniper.
49% : The C.E.O. inauguration crowdIn a stark display of money and power, the three wealthiest men on the planet lined up on Monday in the Capitol Rotunda to witness Donald Trump being sworn in as the 47th president.
47% : The entrepreneur, who spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help get Trump elected and is likely to get a West Wing office to run a government-spending task force, was seated closest to the president.
43% : Labor organizing surged during the pandemic and continued to climb under the Biden administration; but that could be tested under Trump, who favors pro-business legislation and deregulation.
43% : The oil giants Chevron and Exxon Mobil were higher in premarket trading after Trump signed executive orders to pull the country out of the Paris climate accords and open up vast swaths of federal land to drilling and mining.
39% : Trump didn't impose tariffs on Day 1 as he had promised.
39% : Trump didn't announce tariffs as part of his flurry of executive orders.
33% : But the Trump administration's first day -- a torrent of executive orders that pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters, threatened to undermine the constitutional provision for birthright citizenship and withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization -- gave investors a reminder of his volatile effect on global markets.
32% : At a gathering of Trump supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington on Monday, Musk drew condemnation for making hand gestures that resembled the Nazi salute.
30% : Shares in Stellantis, Volkswagen and Mercedes fell on Tuesday, as did those in Orsted, a Danish wind farm developer, after Trump said he would eliminate Biden-era regulations aimed at promoting electric vehicles and halt approvals of new wind farms in federal waters.
29% : President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcement of a ban on the popular video app for 75 days, but it's unclear if that action can override a law that went into effect this weekend.
29% : One culprit: Trump, who has signaled that his administration will loosen regulation around the sector but who made no mention of crypto in his speech on Monday.
27% : The move effectively allows TikTok to operate in the United States, but Trump announced a twist as he was signing the order: He threatened to impose tariffs on China if Beijing doesn't approve a TikTok deal.
26% : But the rally lost steam overnight after Trump threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico as soon as Feb. 1.
26% : Others expressed alarm over a possible trade war and how that might affect European unity if Trump tried to broker deals with individual countries.
20% : So far, Trump appears to be siding with the H-1B defenders.

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