Trump, Musk War of Words Send Indexes Lower Late

Thursday, June 5, 2025We both began and ended today’s trading day with news about President Trump: early this morning, the Chinese government announced Trump and Chinese President Xi held a phone call that lasted an hour and a half on trade policy. By mid-day, an open rift between recently departed DOGE leader and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk sent indexes southward. Their war of words continues on X and Truth Social as I type this.The Dow closed the session -108 points, -0.25%, while the S&P 500 slimmed -31 p ...