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Seven categories, including technology and semiconductors, have "more material risk," meaning import exposure in that group from China is more than 15% of the global total of imports. In other words, tariffs on goods from China would hurt sectors like tech more than tariffs on nearly any other country. More: yhoo.it/3TJ5n8e

Morning Brief: Market swings on reports Trump plans to fire Fed's Powell

"We want Tesla before it's Tesla," Joe Cecala, founder of Dream Exchange, told Yahoo Finance recently. Cecala breaks down the importance on investing early in innovators below. 👇 Listen to the full episode of Financial Freestyle: https://lnkd.in/efCQra8i

How many price hikes are Americans willing to stomach for their morning coffee? Roasted coffee prices surged 12.7% in June compared to a year earlier. More: yhoo.it/4eQMWYJ

Michael Saylor’s imitators are multiplying fast. Dozens of publicly traded companies, a media firm controlled by President Trump’s family, and meme stock poster child GameStop are all piling into a bet that Saylor used to turn a business intelligence software firm into a bitcoin juggernaut called Strategy. More: https://lnkd.in/eSupPVjg

The White House applied more pressure on Jerome Powell this past week while revealing more options for replacing the Federal Reserve chair when his time is up. The new clues about succession options this past week came from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has not denied being among the candidates to eventually take Powell's seat even as he expresses affinity for his job at Treasury. More: yhoo.it/4lAosFT

President Trump on Wednesday tempered reports from earlier in the day that suggested he planned to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell imminently, the latest twist in the ongoing saga regarding Trump's displeasure with the central bank head. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office late Wednesday morning, Trump said he is "not planning" to fire Powell, though he reiterated his view that rates should be lower and the Fed chair is doing a "terrible job." "I don't rule out anything, but I think it's highly unlikely, unless he has to leave for fraud," he added when asked about a firing. More: https://lnkd.in/ent3s73f

The European Union has released a list of countermeasures it may take if President Trump's 30% tariff goes into effect on Aug. 1. How will they impact the auto industry? Yahoo Finance's Pras Subramanian breaks it down. 👇 More: https://lnkd.in/eb7qNkFd

Some of the country's top bankers this week made it clear their Wall Street clients are moving on from tariffs. - "Boardrooms appear more accepting of ongoing uncertainty broadly," Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick said Wednesday. - A narrower range of outcomes on global trade for clients "sealed their confidence and willingness to transact,” Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO David Solomon said. - Clients "continue to see clarity with the changes in trade and tariffs” and “we can see them start to understand the future and expect them to behave accordingly," BofA's Brian Moynihan said. Trading and dealmaking results across five of the biggest Wall Street banks weren't just better than feared. They were collectively higher than the year ago period. On Yahoo Finance. Visualized results by David Foster. Editorial finesse from Dan Fitzpatrick. https://lnkd.in/eHAxyuhv