Trump team needs a trade deal to stop investor panic

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Most worrisome is that markets, and businesses in general, love certainty and Trump is anything but a straight arrow when it comes to negotiations; his skill is to keep the other side off balance as he did successfully with banks during his long career in real estate and business.
51% : About 10 days ago, an increasingly confident Scott Bessent began telling Wall Street executives that he was on the verge of removing the big dark cloud hovering over the US markets and economy: The Treasury Secretary said he was making significant progress in cutting trade deals with India, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, some of our biggest trade partners.
41% : "In the end, it doesn't matter what Bessent thinks or does because he works for Trump," one banker who deals with the White House told me.
35% : " So far, businesses have held back from announcing layoffs amid the uncertainty because, as one institutional investor put it, "Trump might be able to pull this off," and cut favorable trade deals.
28% : The markets would love the move; President Trump could move forward with his broader plans of isolating the rogue of the global trade, China, with its high tariffs and frequent theft of US intellectual property.
12% : It didn't help that Trump added to the uncertainty, when he called Fed Chair Jerome Powell a "major loser," more than hinting that he will try and remove him over his reluctance to cut interest rates because tariffs might stoke inflation.

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