By Laura Matthews<\/p>\n
NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump bought at least $51 million \u200cin bonds in March, according to financial \u200cdisclosures released on Saturday, with the purchases spanning several sectors.<\/p>\n
Trump \u200bcarried out 175 financial transactions last month, according to forms released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The forms don’t include exact values for each \u200csale or purchase, \u2060only a range of values for each.<\/p>\n
Most of the assets disclosed were \u2060municipal bonds issued by states, counties, school districts and other entities with ties to government agencies or \u200bpublic-private partnerships.<\/p>\n
His 26 largest transactions, \u200bin the $1 million to $5 \u200cmillion range, were mainly municipal bonds or U.S. Treasuries, although two of the deals listed were purchases of corporate offerings from Weyerhaeuser and General Motors. He also invested in an exchange-traded fund tracking a \u200chigh-yield bond index.<\/p>\n
The president \u200bbought corporate bonds across energy, \u200btechnology, healthcare and \u200bfinancial services, with issuers including Constellation Energy, \u200cOccidental Petroleum, Broadcom, Nvidia<\/a>, \u200bMeta Platforms, Microsoft<\/a> \u200band Wall Street banks Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase, along with Boeing.<\/p>\n The combined \u200bmaximum value of \u200cTrump’s bond purchases across all asset classes \u200bis about $161 million.<\/p>\n (Reporting by Laura Matthews in New \u200bYorkEditing by Rod Nickel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Laura Matthews NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump bought at least $51 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,138451,12,205524,151996,263852,22757,263851],"class_list":{"0":"post-607091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-constellation-energy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-financial-disclosures","12":"tag-financial-transactions","13":"tag-laura-matthews","14":"tag-municipal-bonds","15":"tag-u-s-office-of-government-ethics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}