We're watching movements of money in the markets with investors, traders, and others

adjusting their political calculus in the wake of the shooting at the Donald Trump

rally on Saturday. I'm David Brancaccio.

Bonds are down stocks are set to open higher

two days after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania

that injured former President Donald Trump.

This on a week that also Republicans are set to begin their convention in Milwaukee.

Marketplace is here with more on what we're seeing this morning.

Yeah, investors are weighing whether the attack on former President Trump increases his chances of winning the November election.

Trump has come out in support of crypto, so Bitcoin is hired this morning, David.

Trump has criticized Democrats' efforts to regulate crypto, and he's apparently still scheduled

to address the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville later this month. And when you're looking at the screens here on stocks and bonds at the moment, what are you saying?

Yeah, ten-year treasury is down, the dollars holding steady, safe havens like gold, which traders turn to during times of uncertainty. They're doing well.

Stock futures are higher. Investors are trading on what they might expect in a second Trump administration and that would be lower

corporate taxes, less government regulation, but also higher tariffs that could push up

inflation.

Now on inflation we're going to be hearing from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

later today. What are investors listening for there?

They're continuing to watch for any hints on when the Fed might lower interest rates.

The Fed has been keeping them high for longer in an effort to bring inflation to its 2%

target.

And last week in testimony on Capitol Hill,

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