Before Trump put a pin in his hefty reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, he wrote on Truth Social, 'THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!'

On April 9, Trump went on to pause most of his tariffs for three months, while keeping in place the 10% baseline and significantly increasing the tax on imports from China.The stock market immediately surged after Trump announced his “90-day pause.

A group of US senators on Friday urged the government's markets corruption watchdog to investigate whether President Donald Trump or White House insiders broke securities laws ahead of his dramatic reversal on global tariffs.