Taxes, Trade, Trump: What’s next for stock, bond markets?

A new presidential administration always means change, but the first few months of the Trump administration have been a whirlwind of executive orders and tariff announcements. The flurry of activity has led to deep swings in the markets.

The White House has given no indications that the president is slowing down. Added to the policy mix the fact that members of the U.S. House and Senate have started to write legislation to extend expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act while the country is approaching its statutory debt limit.

What will all of this mean for stocks and bonds?

Join your industrial metals community and MSCI President and CEO Bob Weidner for a fireside chat with Morgan Stanley’s Steven Ploder. Ploder wears many hats — managing director, wealth management and financial advisor, senior portfolio management director, alternative investments director, insurance planning director, lending specialist — and he will summon all his knowledge to help you make sense of what tariffs, taxes, trade, and Trump will mean for the markets and our industry.

ABOUT STEVEN PLODER, CFA
As a managing director and senior portfolio management director at Morgan Stanley, Ploder’s professional focus lies in creating and maintaining long-term financial plans that are carefully tailored to support transparency, proper diversification, and tax efficiency. With more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry, Ploder’s background is extensive. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche in New York and later spent seven years at Goldman Sachs, where he worked with foreign currency options and other asset classes in both New York and London. He continued serving ultra-high net worth families and institutions at Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse.

Currently, Ploder is a member of Morgan Stanley’s prestigious Chairman’s Club, an elite group of the firm’s top financial advisors. He also holds multiple specialty designations within the firm: senior portfolio management director, lending specialist, and insurance planning director. He has also been recognized on the Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors list for six consecutive years, from 2019 to 2024.