Wall Street and Businesses Race to See Trump’s Tweets First

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Wall Street and Businesses Race to See Trump’s Tweets First

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Imagine thousands of PCs at U.S. businesses and on Wall Street with one window open to @realDonaldTrump. Traders and senior management at businesses that could be affected by the president’s instant economic, business policy and foreign affair comments each want to know real-time how Trump can hurt or help them.

The Trump Twitter feed may be more important to much of the economy and many business sectors than Federal Reserve comments, laws proposed by Congress, stock market moves or earnings reports.

Companies that are affected by tariffs saw this yesterday:

It was instant front page news seen by politicians, Wall Street and businesses that support or oppose the president’s position on trade with Europe. People who care the most about trade were at a temporary loss if they did not have Trump’s Twitter comments available within a fraction of a second.

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And recently there was this:

Perfect fuel for some traders and companies that will need to discuss currency exchange rates when they announce earnings.

President Trump’s tweets have been considered among the most important arsenal he has. It has grown more important than announcements by senior members of his administration or the White House press secretary. To miss them as they hit Twitter is to risk a business opportunity or to miss a danger worth knowing about—now.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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