Trump's tariff threat sends crypto prices falling, including his own meme coin

The sharp pullback in the US dollar, along with tariff relief hopes, are likely to see markets retain their gains, barring any unexpected souring in US-China talks ahead,

said Yeap Jun Rong, market strategist at IG in a note

Those are riskier cryptos” than bitcoin

said Garrick Hileman, an independent cryptocurrency analyst

The flip side of like this asset gaining respectability and finding a role in institutional portfolios is now all of a sudden you’re exposed to the liquidity constraints that larger investors face,

said Nic Carter, a partner at the crypto investment firm Castle Island Ventures

The volatility is something that we have leaned into in a big way since the turn of the calendar,

Simpson said

Dividend-paying stocks in general tend to be less sensitive to interest rates because you are getting more of your return in the form of dividends,

explained Rafia Hasan, CFP and chief investment officer at Perigon Wealth Management in San Francisco

Initially, Treasury yields are likely to rise as tariffs raise inflation,

the fixed income team at the Schwab Center for Financial Research said in an email Monday

Covered calls tend to generally work best when we need them most,

he said

Think about what industries are going to be vulnerable to some of these tariffs,

she said

During normal times, I encourage people, especially retirees, to carve out a portion of their bond portfolio and build a bond ladder using short-term Treasurys, or brokered bank CDs,

he said

Paul Ashworthcapital Economics chief North America economist

Under those circumstances, the window for the Fed to resume cutting interest rates at any point over the next 12 to 18 months just slammed shut,

Paul Ashworth, chief North America economist at Capital Economics, wrote in a note Saturday after Trump signed the tariff orders

Obviously there is some uncertainty about whether these tariffs will go ahead or not, given the one-month pause of the Mexico one announced today,

Stephen Brown, deputy chief North America economist at Capital Economics, wrote in an e-mail

That would knock out at least one and plausibly both remaining Fed cuts this year,

the Evercore note said

Susan Collinssenator

There’s a lot of uncertainty about how policies unfold,

Susan Collins, president the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, told CNBC Monday

We’ve had a couple of meetings, we’ve had numerous phone calls. We’re getting along very well. We’ll see whether or not we can balance out our budget,

he said

Investors are rattled at the prospects of a full-blown trade war breaking out,

said Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, ... adding they

Beyond the rising cost of moving goods across borders, it will disrupt established supply-chains and depress North American business sentiment,

Bruce Kasman, chief economist for J.P.Morgan, said in a note

We suspect the path of least resistance for now is for Asian currencies and risk assets to weaken, together with a greater risk premia to account for future meaningful tariff moves beyond what we have seen,

said Michael Wan at MUFG

This wasn't a shock - it's been telegraphed for weeks - but investors will still feel the jolt as markets adjust to a move almost universally seen as damaging to global growth and financial stability,

said Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management

I don’t believe market participants have fully grasped the extent of the potential fallout yet, especially as responses from affected countries unfold,

said Tareck Horchani, head of prime brokerage dealing at Maybank Securities in Singapore

The surprise for markets … is that Canada and Mexico retaliated immediately and that others, i.e. China and the EU, may follow their lead, resulting in a sharp contraction in global trade,

Tony Sycamore, a market analyst at IG told Reuters