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Blackstone president warns US risks recession without trade deals

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Last updated: 2025/04/17 at 7:15 AM
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Blackstone president Jonathan Gray has warned that the US economy faces the risk of a recession unless Donald Trump can rapidly strike trade deals, becoming the latest Wall Street boss to ratchet up pressure on the administration.

The US president last week announced a 90-day suspension of the steep “reciprocal” tariffs the White House had imposed on most of America’s trading partners, paving the way for negotiations with dozens of countries.

Gray, who oversees the day-to-day operations at the investment group, said: “I would expect an economic slowdown. How significant the economic slowdown is will be directly correlated to the length of the tariff diplomacy.”

The Blackstone president added: “The recession risk is directly tied to the length of the uncertainty”, saying that a speedy resolution to the trade talks would be “positive for the economy and markets”.

Trump’s climbdown came after the aggressive duties unleashed days of market turmoil. The US president, who has said that more than 70 countries are lining up to negotiate trade agreements, held talks with Japanese officials over a potential deal this week.

The comments from Gray come after JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon said he hoped the White House would soon reach “agreements in principle” with the US’s trading partners.

Stock and bond markets have stabilised since Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs pause, but the White House has increased duties on China and also kept a baseline 10 per cent levy on imports from all countries.

Gray said the ructions in markets had created opportunities for Blackstone, which has $1.2tn in assets, for new investments.

“[You] have to anticipate that we are in a period of heightened volatility and uncertainty, but in some cases, we are seeing prices start to reflect that and it can create opportunities for us to invest,” he said.

Blackstone on Thursday reported first-quarter results that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, with its distributable earnings — a metric favoured by analysts as a proxy for the group’s cash flows — climbing 11 per cent to $1.4bn.

The company raised $62bn from investors in the quarter, its biggest haul in almost three years, with its credit and insurance business attracting $30bn.

Led by chair and chief executive Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone also raised $11bn for its funds from wealthy individual investors. About a quarter of the group’s total assets are now managed on behalf of individual investors, up from almost nothing a decade ago.

This month Blackstone announced a plan with Vanguard and Wellington Management to create funds that would invest in public and private assets and cater to affluent investors. Blackstone is betting that the cohort will help drive its growth in coming years.

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