Stocks on tenterhooks as Trump's tariff plans loom

Trump has called April 2 'Liberation Day' but it is unlikely that investors will truly be liberated from tariff uncertainties,

said Vasu Menon, managing director of investment strategy at OCBC

We find our trading environment in a state of chop, with the whippy price action across markets being thematic of market players massaging exposures around the edges and not wanting to commit,

said Chris Weston, head of research at Pepperstone

Tariffs are meant to reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing, but there is more concern about what they mean for supply chains and the prospect of foreign retaliation right now, amidst signs of a cooling domestic economy,

ING economists said in a note