Trump’s Half-Year Earnings Plan: China, CEOs, and Meme Stocks Panic
President Trump proposed on a slow-motion Monday to ditch America’s famously nervous quarterly earnings reports in favor of a relaxed six-month check-in, pending SEC thumbs-up. Apparently, China’s 50-100 year company roadmap inspired this time-traveling move, a fresh reboot of Trump’s 2018 idea that Ford likely filed under \"too late\". Wall Street strategists like Steve Sosnick at Interactive Brokers and ETF king Sean O'Hara are weighing pros and cons, from calmer CEOs sighing relief to options traders prepping for meme-stock chaos. Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett already penned pleas against short-term earnings stress in 2018, so at least the billionaires are on the same confusion page. Meanwhile, investors clutch their quarterly report comfort blankets, nervous this could turn financial clarity into a quarterly Vegas slot machine.
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Quarterly reports are out, half-yearly mystery reports are in. Because nothing screams stability like following China’s 50-year corporate view chants while meme traders sharpen their pitchforks and CEOs practice their polite sighs four times less annually.
Trump wants fewer earnings reports because running a company with laser-focus is hard; better to pretend you’re planning 50 years ahead like China, ignoring the glittering chaos of Wall Street’s quarterly panic attacks.
Cutting earnings reports in half? CEOs rejoice — that’s four fewer times a year they have to fake enthusiasm to cranky analysts who seem to enjoy quarterly interrogations more than Netflix binges.
Source: Axios | Published: 9/16/2025 | Author: Madison Mills
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