What Wall Street got wrong in 2025


THIS was one of the most topsy-turvy years in living memory for financial markets, as US President Donald Trump tore up the economic playbook that has shaped the multilateral, globalised world for decades.

The president’s strategy may have been well telegraphed, but its impact on markets, growth and policy-making turned out to be very different from what most Wall Street analysts had expected.

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