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Investors Hold Their Breath as Trump Tariffs Loom

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

44K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for April 2. Markets are on edge ahead of President Trump’s long-awaited tariff announcement in the Rose Garden later today. Neuberger Berman’s Maya Bhandari explains what market signals tell us about the likely scope of the U.S. actions. Plus, a liberal judge wins the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin in a rebuke of Trump and Elon Musk. And a potential TikTok takeover deal takes shape days ahead of a deadline to sell the platform or shut it down. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Investors hold their breath ahead of President Trump's long-awaited tariff announcement later today.

0:09.9

Plus, a liberal judge wins the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin in a rebuke of Trump and Elon Musk.

0:16.6

Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price.

0:23.2

Our courts are not for sale.

0:27.2

And we'll look at a potential TikTok takeover deal just days ahead of a deadline to sell the platform or shut it down.

0:35.1

It's Wednesday, April 2nd.

0:36.8

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

0:38.9

and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving

0:44.4

your world today.

0:48.8

We are mere hours away from the announcement of new U.S. tariffs, which President Trump is set to unveil

0:55.7

at a White House press conference after the close of markets. We report that so-called reciprocal

1:01.8

tariffs are expected and that whatever measures are announced will take effect immediately,

1:07.0

though the precise contours of the likely sweeping announcement remain under wraps.

1:12.0

Well, as we await the news, we've got Maya Bondari with us to preview the coming trading day and beyond.

1:18.0

She is the chief investment officer for multi-assad Amia at asset manager Newberger Berman.

1:23.9

Maya, we have expected that by this point we would have a sense of what was going to be announced

1:28.4

today. Alas, as it stands, we don't. Could you read the tea leaves, though, a bit on what might be

1:34.3

coming? It does seem likely that what we learn today is going to include some non-tariff measures,

1:40.4

capturing things like currency under valuation as a possible gauge, which is about 15 or

1:45.9

percent when you weigh it by US trade partners. VAT, an area of particular focus here in Europe,

1:51.9

but also around 15 percent. And as you see with these numbers, Luke, the ranges is wide,

1:57.4

uncertain. And at Noboga-Burman, we wouldn't rule out a high starting point,

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