Francesca Fontana
speaker
2,691 appearances
52 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2017
last heard Feb 2025
Francesca Fontana’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was the resurgence of the so-called Trump trade Monday after the attempted assassination of the former president.
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More on that in a bit.
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We also got more earnings from Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs that pushed bank stocks higher.
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Some comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell that didn't give us much more clarity on rate cuts.
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And a retreat of big tech stocks.
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Plus, we ended the week with a giant global tech outage.
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All in all, the major indexes ended the week mixed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average being the only one to notch a weekly gain, adding almost 1%.
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Let's go back to the Trump trade, aka the moves that investors make as they weigh the odds of a Trump victory in November.
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On Monday, which was the first trading session after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, we saw a big leap in DJT.
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Yes, those are Trump's initials, and yes, that's also the ticker for Trump Media and Technology, the parent company of his social media platform, Truth Social.
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The stock moved higher Monday, as did bets on Trump to win the White House on PredictIt, an online marketplace that lets people bet on political events.
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Also moving higher was Bitcoin, in turn lifting stocks like crypto exchange Coinbase Global, since Trump has cast himself as a pro-crypto candidate.
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Later this month, in fact, he'll be speaking at the annual Bitcoin conference.
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So how big was Trump media's rally on Monday?
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Pretty big.
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The stock ended a whopping 31% higher and held on to some of those gains through Friday, ending the week up about 13%.
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Speaking of Trump, he also played a role in some chip makers losing ground on Wednesday.
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In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Trump took aim at Taiwan's dominance in the semiconductor market, which we so often discuss here thanks to AI fueling crazy demand for chip manufacturers.
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Trump said Taiwan took, quote, about 100% of our chip business, unquote, that it should pay for U.S.
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military support, and he questioned subsidies for a TSMC factory in the U.S.
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