President Donald Trump has again delayed a tariff deadline. His back and forth on the policy spurred TACO accusations. What does it mean?

President Donald Trump seems willing to spend “financial markets capital” whenever stocks are up, say strategists at GlobalData, TS Lombard.

Stocks have clawed their way to another record high this week as investors continued to extend increasingly precarious bets on trade.

As Wall Street traders continued to share the accusation that “Trump Always Chickens Out,” the president falsely insisted that he did not delay a tariff deadline.

“TARIFFS WILL START BEING PAID ON AUGUST 1, 2025.,” Trump posted Tuesday morning to Truth Social, the social media website he owns. “There has been no change to this date, and there will be no change. In other words, all money will be due and payable starting AUGUST 1, 2025 - No extensions will be granted.”

If investors widely bet that Trump will blink, that means there is no market freakout. And no market freakout in turn means no one is holding Trump’s feet to the fire, pressuring him to back away from policies that could damage the economy and corporate profits.

Jamie Dimon warns markets are growing complacent on Trump’s tariff threats, as UBS's Paul Donovan flags a paradox fueling investor overconfidence.

THE 20-percent reciprocal tariffs announcement by Washington is a “major shock” for the Philippines, a development that resulted from the collapse of talks between the two trade partners—but there is always a “silver lining,

Investors shrug off Trump’s latest tariff threat as nickname sets the investor’s mood - Experts weigh in on whether Trump will carry out his latest threat – and the consensus is that the uncertainty looming over the U.

Trump always chickens out -- is widely understood to mean President Donald Trump employs brinksmanship before eventually settling on a more reasonable policy. Volkmar Baur, a currency analyst for Commerzbank,