Trump tariffs or paying the knife hanging over the CEO’s head.
$PYPL In the past 24 hours it fell 2.65%, price 62.08, funding 0, OI 5391.98. It dropped, but nobody in the futures market is rushing to chase short—funding is flat. That suggests this move is spot-driven withdrawal, not a leveraged position blow-up.
My take: don’t rush to call a bottom at
$PYPL . Tariff policy is currently the most liquid variable in the U.S. stock market. Over at U.S. Bank they’re still treating tariffs as the main risk. On Truth Social, a single post can make payment stocks jump three times. Payment companies earn from consumer spending; if import costs rise and consumption falls, their fee income softens. If 62.08 can’t be reclaimed, the market may grind down in a slow decline.
The strongest counter-evidence is POLITICO’s TACO logic: Trump often throws out tough talk and then walks it back, so the downtrend may not necessarily have persistence. If it does bounce, it could simply be a matter of a softened statement.
Second-order impact: if tariff expectations heat up again, capital will first pull out of these consumer-sensitive payment stocks, moving liquidity toward defense and energy. A target like
$PYPL , which has no extreme funding, won’t get liquidated on the way down—it just feels bad and drags.
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#TradFi #链上美股 #PYPL
Where do you think this thesis is most likely to be wrong?