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Wall Street Infuriates The President With ‘TACO Trade’ Lingo, He Forgets Key Lesson Of ‘Back To The Future’

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We can’t all be Hawk Tuah Girl. Sometimes virality is more of a slow burn.Such is the case with the great new Wall Street lingo that has burst forth well beyond the confines of the finance industry to enter the mainstream zeitgeist. Yes, I’m talking about the TACO trade.Robert Armstrong, a columnist for the Financial Times, coined the TACO acronym in the May 2 edition(Opens in a new window) of his newsletter. TACO, in this context, stands for “T…

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TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out/Trump Always Be Raja) is an irony created by Wall Street, which learned to earn money when the president announced drastic measures – such as tariffs – only to retract days later. They bought shares when he was threatening, and sold them when he was backing out. In the case of Mexico, he announced tariffs of 25 percent in February, then dropped it to 10 percent in March and then 0 percent in April. In June he just…

Donald Trump hates being mocked. But what he doesn’t stand for, by any means, is that they do it with reason. He became clear from his first day at the White House in January 2017 when he insisted—against all photographic evidence—that his inauguration had gathered “the greatest crowd in history.” He was denied in a matter of hours, but Trump turned this lie into a crusade he became obsessed with for years. That’s why it’s no wonder that the pre…

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"Taco Trade" is what Börsians call the strategy in which they speculate on Trump's tariff threats – and their withdrawal. But those who rely on constant denunciation could soon lose themselves. read more on t3n.de

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