Wall Street celebrated record highs only to stumble into Tuesday’s sobering cocktail of legislative gridlock, geopolitical friction, and monetary ambiguity. As Trump’s tax-and-spend megabill staggers through a Senate marathon and Elon Musk spars with the president over subsidies, the markets begin to whisper what they dare not shout: that the bull, however muscular, is running on fumes. Meanwhile, rate-cut dreams, Nordic car slumps, and snack-size economics cast long shadows over a dazzling, if dizzy, financial quarter.
