The Wall Street Journal

For CEOs and bankers, the Trump euphoria is fading fast

For CEOs and bankers, the Trump euphoria is fading fast
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The Wall Street Journal
By Lauren Thomas, Ben Dummett and Chip CutterIt took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers. Consumer sentiment is down, and inflation expectations are rising, driven in part by worries about the impact of a threatened trade war. The deals market just ended its quietest January in a decade. A Justice Department that was expected to wave through acquisitions instead sued to block a big technology merger.Corporate bigwigs are now using phrases like “fragility...

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