New Delhi, July 3 -- WASHINGTON - On April 8, 2025, the day before stock markets staged one of their largest single-session gains in years, investment accounts belonging to Donald Trump executed 327 stock purchases. The trades were not disclosed at the time. They appeared in Trump's annual financial report on July 2, 2026 - fourteen months after the fact.

The revelation, reported by NBC News, adds a specific transaction date to what had already been a year of scrutiny over Trump's financial interests. Trump's announcement on April 9, 2025 that he would pause a sweeping set of Liberation Day tariffs for 90 days sent the S&P 500 up more than 9 percent, its biggest single-day gain since 2022. Markets had been falling sharply in the days bef...