Hannah Aaron Lang
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Big, Beautiful Bill Nears Tense House Vote
His job approval number has sunk significantly. People disapprove of what they're seeing rather than approve by about 11 points. Now, many of the people who give him low job approval ratings might still not be ready to vote for a Democrat. But still, there's really only two groups among which he has positive job approval ratings. And that is...
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Big, Beautiful Bill Nears Tense House Vote
White working class voters, those without a college degree, that's his core support and always has been. The second group is evangelical Christians who strongly support him. But among just about every other group, he is sinking.
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Big, Beautiful Bill Nears Tense House Vote
A lot of people are kind of sour on Trump because they expect that his tariffs will lead to high inflation. If that materialises, his approval rating could sink further. But if inflation doesn't materialise, maybe they'll turn around instantly. and go into the next election with a more favorable opinion of the president and his party. So there's still plenty of time for things to change.
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Big, Beautiful Bill Nears Tense House Vote
But right now, Donald Trump has a bit of a hole to dig out from among some of the groups that swung toward him and were open to his message in 2024.
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Why Florida Is Considering Getting Rid of Property Tax
Dividend-paying companies, they tend to be these... More mature, well-established companies who are perhaps not so concerned with growing at such a rapid pace because they're not plugging all the profits they earn right back into their growth efforts, for example. They've been around a while. Many of the largest dividend stocks, the allure is the stability of these firms.
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Why Florida Is Considering Getting Rid of Property Tax
So you think like your Coca-Cola, your Procter & Gamble. With a dividend, you're getting some form of return on investment in spite of stock price volatility. So I would say this is considered a safer, maybe more boring slice of the stock market. But this is a type of stock that looked increasingly alluring to investors, given what we've seen in 2025 so far.
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S&P, Nasdaq Post Worst Quarter Since 2022
And we saw a pretty sharp decline in U.S. stocks when the market opened. And as you mentioned, stocks seem to recover from those losses quite significantly. So... My sense of what happened is that over the weekend, investors got some more mixed signals on the tariff front. This seemed to spook investors, at least initially.
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S&P, Nasdaq Post Worst Quarter Since 2022
But as they processed the news, maybe we eventually got back to this place of these big events that we have coming up in the market this week. Trump's self-imposed tariff deadline, as well as the jobs report on Friday. Investors are coming around to the fact that it might not be worst case scenario on either of those fronts.
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S&P, Nasdaq Post Worst Quarter Since 2022
Markets are ending the first quarter of 2025 in an extremely different place than they did the fourth quarter of 2024, especially when it comes to the kind of stars or leaders of the stock market. If you think about those names that were really on top in November, December, during that post-election rally—
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S&P, Nasdaq Post Worst Quarter Since 2022
Nvidia, Tesla, the Mag7, right, all these big tech stocks that fueled a lot of gains in 2023 and 2024 and spurred this broader risk-on attitude among investors. Those stocks have been some of the laggards, and then less risky assets have also attracted more interest from investors.
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S&P, Nasdaq Post Worst Quarter Since 2022
So things like bonds, but even stocks in the consumer staples sector or dividend stocks we've reported on have outperformed the market. because of the uncertainty around tariffs and the economy that is fueling a lot of anxiety among investors right now.
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S&P, Nasdaq Post Worst Quarter Since 2022
Today was a trading day that felt very similar to other days we've seen in the market so far in 2025, where whenever President Trump speaks about tariffs or there's some kind of significant report on the details of the tariff policy coming out of his administration, it's It sends big ripples through the market. And we saw global stock markets end lower in Europe and Asia.
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Countries Negotiating With Trump Over Tariffs Turn to Goldman Sachs
You obviously have fear of inflation. Inflation tends to be good for gold. You also have fear of a more general nature. You have fear that there's political instability in the United States. You have fear that the role of the U.S. dollar is being undermined.
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Countries Negotiating With Trump Over Tariffs Turn to Goldman Sachs
Let's say you had to take your money out of the United States in a hurry and there were capital controls, hard assets like precious metals, diamonds, things like that become more attractive in those types of situations. If I have my money in a bank account, it's subject to all sorts of controls on what I can do with it, transfer it out of the country.
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Countries Negotiating With Trump Over Tariffs Turn to Goldman Sachs
Your dollars or your treasury bonds, those are U.S. assets. They carry a U.S. passport. Gold, silver, diamonds, platinum. Part of the reason they are attractive is they could have a buyer anywhere in the world. It's a similar case for Bitcoin. But basically gold is like nature's Bitcoin.