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The Market Ear sees squirming robots.

Volatility was relatively low on risk markets overnight as traders await the real April Fool’s Day as the Trump Regime’s “Worldwide Shoot Ourselves in the Feet” tariff deadline draws near.

Asian stock markets are doing somewhat better in response to the late rebound on Wall Street overnight but a big air of caution remains as the new month gets underway and the world awaits the onslaught of the new tariffs from the Trump regime tomorrow on April 2nd.

Not that he didn’t hit it earlier, but he is still giving it a pounding.

As the April 2 deadline looms for the Fanta Fuhrer’s Tariff Tirade, Wall Street had to react to the weekend newsflow and did so with volatility plus, falling sharply before a late rebound while currency markets were more sanguine, waiting for actual results.

A sea of red across Asian stock markets in response to the poor finish to the trading week on Friday night on Wall Street with Japanese bourses falling sharply as exporters worry about the next round of Trump tariffs.

The Market Ear on some worrying signals for the bubble.

Good news was bad news for risk markets on Friday night as the April 2 deadline looms with Trump’s call with PM Carney presenting no change in the deadlock as the Canadians announce retaliatory tariffs.

Asian stock markets are having a poor finish to the trading week with most markets down amid noise around more Trump tariff nonsense, while the latest Japanese inflation figures sent local stocks sharply lower.

Goldman says China is back.

More tariff fallouts overnight as the April 2 deadline looms with Trump whining about Canadian-EU collaboration in the latest round of threats, while stocks put in slight selloffs amid the low volatility reactions.

Noise around the latest tariff tirade from Trump, this time on cars from – well everywhere – has not really affected Asian stock markets that much relatively speaking as regional concerns outweigh the dummy spitting from the White House.

The Market Ear is still looking short-term.

As the April 2 deadline the ultimate round of US tariff’s beckons, the Fanta Fuhrer couldn’t help shoot early with a blanket 25% car tariff, thus dooming the domestic US car industry as the world will shift to boycott US made vehicles.

Asian stock markets are doing slightly better today given the mixed result overnight although S&P futures are looking more robust given more Trump talk about caving in on tariffs, although who knows what will actually happen as another distraction is likely soon given the recent intelligence foul up by half his Cabinet.

The Market Ear argues for the reverse pivot today.

A bit of Fedspeak overnight was overshadowed by the Clown Show in the White House overnight as markets remain somewhat hesitant as the April 2 deadline for Trump’s Tariff Tirade beckons.

Not much action across Asian stock markets although offshore Chinese markets are feeling the pinch while mainland shares are unchanged as are the satellite Australian local stocks which have tread water again.

The Market Ear is all over it.

Overnight saw the still quite hesitant risk complex jump for joy as the Mango Mussolini decided to perhaps, maybe pull back his upcoming April 2nd tariff threats a smidge which gave Wall Street the excuse to bid everything higher as the Trump Dump and Pump scheme continued.

Another very mixed session across Asian stock markets reflecting the growing unease over the weekend as the April 2 “tariff letter” deadline starts to come into focus.

The Market Ear with a pearler. A key risk to the market Foreigners hold a record amount of US stocks. And they have just started selling. Deutsche Bank says that there could easily be one trillion dollars of foreign selling. This is way bigger than the corporate demand (=the biggest buyer) estimated this year.

Friday night saw a very hesitant risk complex trying to digest the recent Bank of England and Swiss Central Bank meetings, while trying to anticipate what the Fanta Fuhrer in the Oval Office is going to do next with tariffs.

The Market Ear with an amusing set-up for equities.