US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as press spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, when he returned to Washington, DC, USA, March 9, 2025 on board the Air Force One.
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President Donald Trump dismissed the growing choir of CEOs, investors and political decision -makers who advocate the White House for greater clarity about its extensive tariff agenda.
“They always say that.” We want clarity, “said Trump in a Fox News interview that was broadcast on Sunday.
“You have a lot of clarity,” said the president about “Sunday morning -futures”, host Maria Bartiromo.
The appeal to the White House of the Business World to give concrete guidance is hardly more than topics of conversation. “You just use it – like almost a sound bite.”
Trump's response from Bartiromo about whether there would be “clarity for the business world”.
“I think so, but you know that the tariffs could rise over time and you can rise and you know, I don't know if it is predictability.”
Bartiromo threw in: “This is not a clarity.”
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Hours after the full interview was broadcast, the beginning of a new week gave the lower Sunday evening lower with tariff fears and increased economic uncertainty.
Shares continued to fall when the markets opened on Monday. The futures, which were connected to the industrial average of Dow Jones, declined by almost 500 points or 1.2%on Monday morning, while the S&P 500 futures decreased by 1.4%and the Nasdaq 100 -Futures declined by 1.6%.
The comments were concluded from a week, which was characterized by the unpredictability of Trump's tariffs and the wider strength of the US economy.
The S&P 500 fell 3.10%for its worst weekly brand since September. The Dow fell by 2.37%, while the Nasdaq network was 3.45%.
In the center of the storm, Trump's stiffness was 25% tariffs for imports from Canada and Mexico, which were originally during the break for a month, only restored on Tuesday, only to be returned on Wednesday and partially remained during the break for another month on Thursday.
In the meantime, Trump and several officials warned in his administration that the Americans could attract a certain economic burden – including higher prices. However, they insisted that adverse effects would be temporary.
The confusion about Trump's constantly changing trading plans made investors unsafe what comes next.
While Trump played down the effects of his unpredictable trading policy on the domestic markets, the Wall Street analysts do not have this.
“We still have no clarity about the economy that is progressing with Trump's turbulence,” wrote Byron Anderson, head of the firm income at Laffer Tengler Investments.
“The longer we have chaos and turbulence from Trump, the higher the likelihood that we will ultimately have a data trend negative,” he wrote in a Friday.
The White House did not answer a request to comment on Trump's recent remarks about his tariffs or the widespread confusion about his agenda.
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The coming week promises many new economic data to test the competing theories.
On Monday, the New York FED survey is due to the expectations of consumers, followed by the publication of the consumer price index in February on Wednesday.
A number of new manufacturer price data will be carried out on Thursday before the week is completed on Friday with a consumer mood from the University of Michigan.
When the Trump government expires months of re -evaluating American trade relationships around the world, the negative effects of uncertainty in the past few weeks could be enlarged.
“The markets fear more uncertainty than the bad news,” wrote Mark Malek, Chief Investment Officer at Siebert Financial. “25% tariffs are easier at prices than 'maybe 10%, maybe more, maybe less'.”
It is not just companies and investors who need more clarity before making important decisions.
The Federal Reserve does it too.
The chairman Jerome Powell said on Friday that the central bank was “well positioned to wait for greater clarity”, while the Trump administration “implemented significant political changes in four different areas: trade, immigration, budgetary policy and regulation”.
Powell spoke in the US monetary policy forum and said that it was “the net effect of these political changes, which will be important for the economy and the path of monetary policy”.
At the moment he said: “Uncertainty about the changes and their likely effects remain high.”
Like so many others, the Fed is “concentrated on separating the signal from the noise while the view develops,” he added.
– Jesse Pounds CNBC contributed the reporting.
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