Last weekend and early this week, Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China roiled the markets.

The markets dropped 400 points on Friday and another 600 on Monday.

Fortunately, we were prepared for this volatility with one of our unique down market plays. In fact, we closed our “Dark Ticker” trade on IWM for an 17% winner in less than 1 trading day.

Now markets are slowly recovering with the Mexico/Canada tariffs getting paused for 30 days.

So with the dust settling, here’s what these tariffs could mean going forward.

Canada and Mexico Tariffs

Donald Trump proposed a 10% tariff on energy imports from Canada last weekend, which has since been paused.

Here’s why that pausing matters…

Canada is actually one of our biggest energy trading partners. In fact, 61% of our energy imports come from Canada. Only 3% comes from Saudi Arabia.

You might hear that the United States is “producing more oil and natural gas than ever before, so why are we not energy independent by now?”

The answer is simple…

Crude oil is not all the same. There’s heavy and light crude. There’s also different refineries that can only refine certain types of crude, so we have to import oil based on what we can refine.

In short – we need that oil.

That’s why Trump’s proposed tariff on energy for Canada was only 10%.

However, the China tariffs are a different matter.

What China’s tariffs mean

While the Mexico and Canada tariffs were of little to no impact since most if not all “agreements” were either in process or on the table already, China might actually be ready for a trade fight.

Since Trump’s proposed tariffs on the world’s second largest economy, China has since hit back with higher “select” tariffs. It also put several companies, including tech giant Google, on notice for possible sanctions.

The truth is… 80% of all U.S. household items come from China. So Trump can’t put tariffs on everything.

The key point to take away is we’re going to have more volatile days in the market as long as China signals it won’t back down.

The Gold Conundrum

With all this volatility from China, you would expect safe-haven plays like gold to scream higher, and that’s certainly been the case so far.

Yesterday gold regained an all-time high, moving up 1.1% to $2,844.56 per ounce. So we’re just a hair shy of $3,000 an ounce.

I’ve been bullish on gold throughout 2024 and 2025.

We currently have exposure to several gold companies in Catalyst Cash-Outs, including Franco Nevada and EMX.

The crazy part is… there are several gold companies that are trading nowhere close to all-time highs right now.

Now, I’m not losing sleep over this. After all, we’re already seeing positive returns on our current gold plays. But it makes me wonder if gold is going to go even higher.

YOUR ACTION PLAN

As long as tariffs dominate the news cycle, they’re going to continue affecting the markets. But Wall Street could also wise up to the drama – meaning we could see less volatile days than we’ve seen so far.

This is good news for safe-haven plays like gold.

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