Every once in a while, the stock market breaks out in volatility pockets due to the birth and run of news cycles, as it is an inevitable fact of financial markets as a whole. What is also inevitable and natural is for the phases of these developments to go through a cycle, where new pivots and headlines start to exhaust the whipsaws caused by introducing new information to sway the outlooks being priced into asset prices.
This week, the second trading week of April 2025, President Trump swiftly pivoted his view to an exemption for some of the products previously tariffed from China’s exports.
