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The wild market fluctuations caused by President Donald Trump's tariff announcements raised questions Wednesday afternoon about the potential for insider trading.

Financial markets continued to free-fall Wednesday morning over Trump's tariffs for U.S. trading partners at an average rate of 29 percent. Trump posted on Truth Social, "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT"

After Trump announced that afternoon that he was issuing a 90-day reprieve on all tariffs except for those leveled against China, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 2,500 points, while the Nasdaq surged 10%....

President Donald Trump's net worth has taken a hit — by the hundreds of millions — following his tariff announcement last week, Forbes reported Tuesday.

Forbes senior editor Dan Alexander estimated the loss at about $500 million, down to $4.2 billion from $4.7 billion on April 2.

"Trump’s biggest loss comes from his most valuable asset, the Trump Media and Technology Group, which declined 8% over the last three trading days, hitting its lowest price since October," Alexander wrote. "His stake, worth $2.2 billion Wednesday, now sits at $2 billion." ...

The financial markets are reacting poorly to President Donald Trump's weekend imposition of stiff trade tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China — and a CNN expert was left dumbfounded as he watched it unfold live.

The Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 all opened down on Monday, and continued to plummet following Trump's sweeping tariffs that most experts agree have started a trade war with at least two firm U.S. allies.

"This makes perfect sense!" CNN's Richard Quest said of the dismal markets. "If you think of the sheer vast swathes, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods being on both sides that are going to be hit, this makes perfect sense because, what is a stock price? The stock price is a barometer of a company's current and future earnings. They will go down." ...

US stocks Wednesday rose to new records following a stream of mixed economic data on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Stock markets in New York and London climbed to new highs on Tuesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to its highest closing level and the London market surpassed a level last reached five years ago.

NEW YORK — The Dow Jones Industrial Average powered to an all-time record high Tuesday exactly four years after hitting bottom in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.