It was quiet, too quiet. Markets were comfortably drifting ever higher (10th day up in a row for Nasdaq) and then headlines hit on Bloomberg reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller wil be probing Trump's business transactions and will extend his investigation to examining the dealings of Kushner and Manafort.
It is likely that such a wide-angle approach to the probe could trigger a response from the president who last night told the NYT in an interview that any digging into matters beyond Russia "would be out of bounds." Bloomberg also notes that agents are interested in transactions involving the Bank of Cyprus, where Wilbur Ross served as vice chairman before he became the Commerce Sec., as well as the efforts of Jared Kushner to secure financing for some of his family’s real estate properties.
In short, Trump is about to respond, perhaps violently.
More from Bloomberg:
The
U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald
Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad
range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of
his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe.
FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian
purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a
controversial SoHo development with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss
Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a
Russian oligarch in 2008, the person said.
As goes USDJPY, so goes the S&P 500...
Gold and VIX are higher...
These headlines follow reports overnight that Deutsche Bank (and other banks) will soon be receiving subpoenas from Mueller for details about Trump's loans.
The president told the New York Times on Wednesday that any digging into matters beyond Russia would be out of bounds. We await the angry tweet response from the president.
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