Executive orders, tariffs and appointments, and the sectors they reach.

The energy industry has long opposed government intervention, and some executives are worried the U.S. is creating a giant with the ability to push them around.
Trump Media and Rumble are selling off hard while their own sector wrapper trades green, and the usual suspects like rates and broad risk-off moves do not explain the split.
The order is expected to be signed behind closed doors at 1:30 p.m. ET, according to Reuters
The agency has operated with just one of its five commissioners since early in the Trump administration, with bipartisan calls to fill the seats
Trump just threatened to halt trade with every country where the U.S. runs a deficit unless the Fed bends to his will, but the Fed's own chair appears to be moving in the opposite direction, and September 16 is fast approaching.
Trump threatened to cut off trade with deficit countries if the Fed refuses to slash rates, citing a Supreme Court ruling that actually went against him, while his own Fed chair spent the previous week signaling rates may need to go up.
The president issued the ultimatum in a Truth Social post responding to a stronger-than-expected August jobs report
The Trump administration pressured U.S. space companies not to attend a high-profile space summit in Paris organized by French President Emmanuel Macron, triggering a last-minute reshuffle and the ca...
A Democratic senator is demanding Capital One explain its anti-money laundering review of Trump accounts
Quartz · Sep 3
Capital One said in a July court filing it closed Trump-linked accounts after identifying "suspicious transactions" tied to money laundering red flags
Analysts say the Sept. 24 meeting is likely to manage tensions rather than resolve them, with Iran sanctions and tariffs clouding the agenda
Lutnick appeared on stage at a tech-focused G20 event with Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown.
Oil giant Chevron confirms it will expand operations in Venezuela after Trump announces deal
New York Post · Sep 2
Chevron, the only US oil company with a major presence in Venezuela, said Wednesday that it has been assigned additional acreage in the Orinoco Belt, where it has active operations.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's remarks come days after a federal judge sided with Anthropic in its dispute with the Pentagon over AI safety
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said AI giant Anthropic is "back on the right side" with the Trump administration, according to an Axios article published on Wednesday, suggesting that the ...
Democratic US senator asks Capital One for details on Trump account anti-money laundering review
Yahoo Finance · Sep 2
Trump to meet with travel industry CEOs as White House touts World Cup tourism boost
CNBC · Sep 2
President Donald Trump will meet Wednesday with leaders from major airlines, hotels and travel companies after a men's FIFA World Cup-fueled summer tourism boost. Travel spending rose 6.2% in June, bu...
The Bank of Canada will publish its latest interest rate decision at 9:45 a.m. ET on Wednesday.
Owning an oil refinery is a profitable proposition in the U.S. Building a new one? Not so much.
Apple follows Google in adopting Trump's ‘Lake America' nameGOOG
TechCrunch · Sep 1
Apple has followed Google's lead and officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its Apple Maps service less than a week after President Trump ordered the change.
Chevron Will Grow Venezuelan Oil Production. It's Different Than Trump's Big Bet.
Barrons · Sep 1
Chevron already produces about 280,000 barrels of oil a day in Venezuela through joint ventures. The company has said it can expand by another 50% over the next two years,
American Airlines adds $1,000 Trump Account match for workers' children
Fox Business · Sep 1
American Airlines is adding a new employee benefit that includes a $1,000 Trump Account match per eligible child and a pretax savings option.
Washington just handed 100-year control of the world's largest proven oil reserves to a private company most investors have never heard of, and the structure of the deal locks retail traders out completely.
Trump just claimed rights to more oil than exists beneath all 50 states combined, but the Gulf Coast refiners responsible for turning that crude into gasoline have a very different reaction than the White House expected.
Apple isn't losing its Trump whisperer
Business Insider · Sep 1
Tim Cook is no longer leading Apple. He's not going far.
Lake America? Trump's Lake Ontario name change creates map mayhem for Apple and Google.GOOG
Market Watch · Sep 1
Google Maps now shows different names depending on a user's country, while a Trump administration official says Apple has been “directly” contacted by the president about making changes.
Joesley Batista met with Trump in the Oval Office on Aug. 20, one day before the president announced a 90-day tariff waiver on beef imports
An unprecedented deal for the U.S. to gain access to a fifth of Venezuela's oil reserves - and the central role a Venezuelan businessman will play - is prompting questions and hesitation from some oi...
Venezuelan interim authorities have granted North American Blue Energy Partners 100-year concessions for 17 oil fields, White House says.
Brazilian billionaire Joesley Batista, one of the owners of meatpacker JBS , met U.S. President Donald Trump on August 20 to discuss how additional beef supply from Brazil could help tame U.S. b...
The popular prediction market Polymarket has raised $300 million from 1789 Capital as part of a new funding round totaling around $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.
Trump says Exxon is 'going in' to Venezuela as US pushes oil deals
Reuters · Aug 31
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that ExxonMobil , the largest U.S. oil major, was among a group of companies planning to do business in Venezuela.
The agreements provide for all state Medicaid programs to pay prices for prescription drugs that match the lowest prices paid by other developed nations, the White House said
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that it's up to Venezuela to decide whether it should leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Trump to announce new drug pricing agreement.PFELLY
InvestingLive · Aug 31
President Trump is set to announce another round of voluntary drug-pricing agreements today involving Bayer, Takeda, CSL and several midsized biotechnology companies.Under the agreements, participating drugmakers are expected to provide “most-favored-nation,” or MFN, pricing on outpatient drugs purc…
President Donald Trump promised that his massive oil deal with Venezuela would "substantially lower gas prices for all Americans, long into the future." But Venezuela's oil infrastructure is in a stat...
The Tuesday meeting comes as pump prices have held above $4 a gallon and midterm elections are two months away
Nearly a dozen drugmakers are reportedly slated to voluntarily sell their medications at lower prices under deals expected to be announced by President Donald Trump on Monday. The string of deals buil...
Trump will meet Tuesday with U.S. refiners and fuel distributors to discuss expanding refining capacity and lowering gas prices. The White House says it wants “near-term steps” to boost capacity as mo...
The president and his fellow Republicans look set to focus on affordability as the midterms near.
Some in Washington see aluminum policy as a fight over smelters — the plants that actually make raw aluminum. But the numbers say otherwise.
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce a new round of drug-pricing agreements on Monday, a White House official said, part of a push to make healthcare more affordable for Americans.
Trump fired a warning shot at communities blocking data centers, but a growing revolt stretching from Texas to Arizona reveals the $1 trillion AI buildout faces a political obstacle that no Truth Social post can easily bulldoze.
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