
This time, there was no urgent post. But White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did say during a regularly scheduled Monday afternoon briefing that President Donald Trump will issue an executive order extending to August 1 the July 9 deadline for imposition of tariffs announced April 2.
"Markets climb walls of worry," according to an old Wall Street adage. And, though price action was broadly negative Tuesday, investors, traders and speculators have indeed taken stocks to new highs since Liberation Day.