Trump’s China cooking oil threat cut $450B from market in minutes, watcher says — keep politics from frying your stocks
Markets took a late-day gut punch on Oct. 14 after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social and threatened to terminate business with China “having to do with cooking oil” among other “elements of trade” in response to China slashing imports of U.S. soybeans in recent months. (1) The social media post sent ripples across…