'Serious About Tariffs': Here's How Investors and Business Leaders Are Reacting to President Donald Trump's Joint Address to Congress

Mar 06, 2025 01:29 AM - 1 week ago 13977

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump addressed a associated convention of Congress, highlighting the home and overseas argumentation changes his management has made successful the first six weeks of his 2nd term.

The speech, which group a record astatine complete 90 minutes, touched upon a myriad of economical argumentation issues that will straight effect business owners.

In a CBS YouGov poll of watchers (51% described themselves arsenic Republicans, 27% arsenic Independents, and 20% arsenic Democrats), 76% approved what they heard from the president.

In the address, Trump defended his tariffs, saying it would impact the system but only successful the short term.

"There'll beryllium a small disturbance," he said. "But we're OK pinch that. It won't beryllium much."

Trump besides said he wants to extremity the Chips Act, the Biden-era $52 billion subsidy programme for semiconductor manufacturing.

In consequence to the address, Josh Lipsky, elder head of the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center, said Trump's reside intends he is superior astir tariffs.

"The astir important statement connected waste and acquisition successful the president's reside wasn't astir steel, aluminum, aliases farming. It was erstwhile Trump said tariffs are 'about protecting the psyche of our country,'" Lipsky said. "These 7 words should put the full world connected announcement that Trump is superior astir tariffs. To him, they are not conscionable a negotiating tool. It is imaginable that, wrong the adjacent respective months, we could beryllium facing a world waste and acquisition war."

When it comes to investors, Michael Schulman, main finance serviceman astatine Running Point Capital Advisors, told Reuters that guidance should "overall beryllium positive."

"Cutting taxes connected individuals and home manufacturing and 100% contiguous capex deductions will incentivize business spending arsenic agelong arsenic corporations judge the user will beryllium location to spend," Schulman said. "Investor guidance should wide beryllium affirmative since disposable income whitethorn emergence erstwhile these policies are passed."

Others thought the reside was excessively "on script."

Reflection Asset Management President Jason Britton told Reuters: "The reside will person a muted guidance arsenic overmuch of the affirmative sentiment was priced successful already."

"It was arsenic expected and a infinitesimal wherever the president stayed connected book and there's small to nary aftermath," Britton added.

You tin watch the afloat speech, here.

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