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A decision by US President Donald Trump or his advisors has created panic in the financial markets of the entire world. A recent report has revealed that Trump has made more than 3700 stock trades in the first three months (90 days) of this year. After this shocking revelation, a new investigation has now started against Trump. Such huge trading activity has surprised even the biggest Wall Street giants and stock market experts. With this, the debate regarding ‘conflict of interest’ has once again intensified in the political circles of Washington.

According to Bloomberg’s report, these initial disclosures have seen trading activity worth millions of dollars in some of America’s largest technology, finance, aerospace and media companies. If we understand it in simple words, between January and March this year, Donald Trump made on an average more than 40 trades every day. This figure is a huge jump from their previous quarter, as only 380 trades were reported in the last three months of 2025. Major stock market expert Matthew Tuttle told Bloomberg that this is much more trade than normal. It’s almost like a hedge fund that does computer-based ‘algo trading’ on a large scale.

Which big companies’ shares did Trump buy and sell?

Filings and disclosures have revealed that Donald Trump bought shares worth at least one million US dollars (crores of rupees) in world giants like NVIDIA, Oracle, Microsoft, Boeing and Costco in this quarter. Apart from this, his trading portfolio also included deals in famous companies like Amazon, Meta, Uber, eBay, Abbott Laboratories, AT&T and Dollar Tree.

The biggest transaction in all this trading was seen on February 10, when Donald Trump sold his major holdings (shares) in Microsoft, Meta and Amazon worth between $ 5 million and $ 25 million. Along with this, his huge investments in big media and entertainment companies like Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global have also come to light.

Why are questions being raised on this investment of Trump?

There is concern about this investment among political and economic experts because many of these companies work in sectors that are directly affected by the policies, regulations, and geopolitical decisions of the US government. For example, giant chip maker Nvidia needs direct approval from Washington (US government) to export its advanced AI chips to China. Similarly, aircraft manufacturing company Boeing is completely dependent on defense and aerospace contracts of the US government. At the same time, big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are constantly affected by government antitrust investigations, AI regulation debates and federal policy decisions. In such a situation, the President himself trading in these companies raises questions.

Critics raised serious questions on ‘conflict of interest’

Opponents and critics of Donald Trump clearly say that even though no direct law has been broken by this trading, such aggressive trading by the current President of the country raises serious concerns of ‘conflict of interest’. Many past US presidents have a history of selling off their businesses and investments entirely while in office, or handing them over to a traditional ‘blind trust’ that is managed completely independently without any interference from family. But Trump did not do this. According to Bloomberg, Trump’s businesses are still active in industries that have a direct impact on government decisions, while his sons are handling a large part of the Trump Organization.

‘Strange’ connection between Trump’s statements and stock market

These new revelations come just a few months after some very strange trading activity was seen in the oil (crude oil) and stock futures markets. This has intensified speculation in the market whether any inside information to Trump’s public statements on Iran was leaked. In fact, at the beginning of this year, some traders had placed huge bets on falling oil prices and the rise of the US equity market.

The surprising thing is that right after this, Trump publicly indicated progress in talks with Iran. Immediately after this statement of Trump, oil prices fell drastically in the international market and there was a tremendous rise in the stock market. Although no concrete evidence directly linking Donald Trump to these benefits or trades has come to light to the public, this entire incident has raised great concerns about how sensitive political decisions and statements can directly impact the financial markets.