About this episode
The episode discusses how to navigate investing during the Trump presidency, highlighting market behaviors and ETF data.
Markets hate uncertainty — unless, it turns out, they don’t. Under US President Donald Trump, investors have endured tariff scares, geopolitical flare-ups and a steady drumbeat of headline-driven panic. Yet stocks keep climbing; April, in particular, was a blockbuster. Maybe the best way to understand this market is to stop trying to make sense of it. On this episode of Trillions , Eric Balchunas and Joel Weber speak with Bloomberg Intelligence’s Athanasios Psarofagis about what ETF data actually says about investing during a Trump presidency. His grab bag of stats — March is cursed, Thursdays are rough and some of the biggest gains happen while you sleep — paints a picture of a market behaving very differently under pressure. Together, they unpack why it feels more volatile than ever and explore why the investors who come out ahead are often the ones who do the least. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
People in this episode
Hosts: Eric Balchunas, Joel Weber
Guest: Athanasios Psarofagis
Topics covered
- investing
- Trump presidency
- market volatility
- ETF data
- economic uncertainty
Keywords
- investing
- Trump
- ETF
- market behavior
- volatility
- economic uncertainty
- stocks
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bloomberg
Places: United States
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