Ed Yardeni

MARKET CALL: Wall Street Is Main Street

Apr 6, 2025 4 min read paid

Conspiracy theories are usually wrong even though they seem to explain a lot. The latest conspiracy theory floating on social media is that President Donald Trump is causing a recession to bring interest rates down to reduce the federal government's net interest outlays and to lower mortgage rates to make homes more affordable. A recession would also weaken the foreign exchange value of the dollar, which would boost

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DEEP DIVE: Annihilation Days

Apr 6, 2025 9 min read paid

💡This is a special advance release of Monday’s Morning Briefing, normally reserved for our institutional clients. Given recent developments, we wanted to share it with our QuickTakes community as well. As always, your comments are welcome. Trump’s Tariffs I: President’s Exit Ramp. So far, congressional Republicans are giving Trump Tariffs 2.0 the benefit of the doubt. Some are voicing their concerns. A few Senate Republicans are

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ECONOMIC WEEK: APRIL 7-11

Apr 6, 2025 3 min read paid

While Trump's tariffs will likely dominate the headlines, the economic week ahead will also focus on the inflationary impact of US import duties. We expect March's CPI (Thu) and PPI (Fri) to confirm our concern that higher goods prices will lift headline inflation measures quickly, preventing an easing policy response from the Fed. In other words, the Fed Put is likely on hold this year even

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Stock Vigilantes Declare: 'Mr. President, Tear Down This Tariff Wall!'

Apr 4, 2025 3 min read

China imposed a 34% tariff on imports of US goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump's trade war today. The S&P 500 continues to fall freely and the Nasdaq entered bear market territory this morning. On March 10, when the S&P 500 closed at 5614.56, we wrote in our QuickTakes: "The Stock Market Vigilantes have spoken. They don't like tariffs,

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BONUS CONTENT: Damage Assessment Report In 16 Charts Of Trump Tariff Turmoil 2.0

Apr 3, 2025 2 min read

View All QuickTakesView Our Live Charts💡Join the discussion with Ed below! To leave comments or questions, log in to the Yardeni QuickTakes website and post them at the end of the QuickTakes article. Paid members' contributions may be featured in our segment, "Ed Answers Your Questions".

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More Bad News Caused By Trump Turmoil 2.0

Apr 3, 2025 3 min read paid

Trump Tariff Turmoil 2.0 has caused a stock market selloff that is in full swing. The Nasdaq fell around 5% and the S&P 500 nearly 4% in the first hour of trading. The 10-year Treasury yield sank 16bps to 4.03% as recession fears outweigh inflation fears. Yesterday's Liberation Day festivities in the Rose Garden set off a freefall in stock prices on increasing fears

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Stocks Greet Liberation Day With Bronx Cheers

Apr 2, 2025 3 min read

President Donald Trump and his guests at the Rose Garden today celebrated Liberation Day. Stock investors won't be celebrating tomorrow based on the plunge in futures prices tied to the DJIA, S&P 500, and the Nasdaq-100. The Stock Market Vigilantes are not happy. Trump announced that on April 5, his administration will impose a 10% tariff rate on all imports from all of America's

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Dr Ed's Video Webcast 4/2/25

Apr 2, 2025 1 min read paid

Trump’s Reign Of Tariffs: Stagflation Odds Up, S&P 500 Target Down The expected fallout from Trump 2.0’s Reign of Tariffs undercuts our former bullishness and dims the prospects of our base-case Roaring 2020s scenario for now. It has also drained confidence in the US economy on the parts of everyone from CEOs to consumers to investors. Recent data showing manufacturing faltering and purchasing managers paying

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Unsettling Economic Policy Conditions Starting To Unsettle The Economy

Apr 1, 2025 3 min read

Today's batch of economic indicators shows a few signs that Trump Turmoil 2.0 started to weigh on the economy during March. That’s the message from the month's national ISM manufacturing purchasing managers survey. February's construction spending report shows that this sector is losing its upward momentum, for now. On the other hand, February's JOLTS release shows that the labor market

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Our New S&P 500 Earnings & Price Targets Under Trump's Reign Of Tariffs

Mar 31, 2025 4 min read

Yesterday, we reduced the odds of our Roaring 2020s base-case scenario from 65% to 55% and raised the odds of a stagflationary scenario from 35% to 45%. The latter includes the possibility of a shallow recession later this year, following a buy-in-advance shopping spree during April and May. We did so because Trump's Reign of Tariffs imposed a 25% permanent tariff on imported autos and auto parts last

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Trump’s Reign Of Tariffs: Stagflation Odds Up, S&P 500 Target Down

Mar 30, 2025 11 min read

YRI Bulletin Board. Our colleague Eric Wallerstein is taking a leave of absence. He has accepted a position on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. We wish him all the best. The following is a reprint of our Morning Briefing which we sent to our institutional investors today. We wanted to share it with our QuickTakes community of individual investors and business professionals. Your comments are always welcome. Reign

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LIBERATION WEEK: March 31-April 4

Mar 30, 2025 3 min read paid

Trump's Reign of Tariffs will likely dominate the economic week ahead. The big event will occur on April 2 (dubbed "Liberation Day" by President Donald Trump). That's when the administration will impose reciprocal tariffs on a number of America's trading partners. However, it's very likely that tariff announcements will continue after that date, as bilateral negotiations are teased out and

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