{"id":332564,"date":"2026-05-15T21:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-went-big-on-tech-stocks-in-first-quarter-of-2026-new-filings-show.html"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:38:05","slug":"trump-went-big-on-tech-stocks-in-first-quarter-of-2026-new-filings-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-went-big-on-tech-stocks-in-first-quarter-of-2026-new-filings-show.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump went big on tech stocks in first quarter of 2026, new filings show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Donald Trump<\/a> reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars \u2014 including large purchases and sales of tech giants <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-2\">Nvidia<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\">Microsoft<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-4\">Amazon<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-5\">Meta<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> \u2014 in the first three months of 2026, new <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">disclosure forms<\/a> reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s filings with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show more than 3,700 transactions, with the total amount for each listed as a range rather than an exact figure.<\/p>\n<p>The transactions, which became public on Thursday, are valued at between $220 million and $750 million cumulatively, according to <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s biggest purchases and sales skewed toward the tech sector, the filings showed.<\/p>\n<p>Among three dozen transactions valued between $1 million and $5 million in the first quarter of 2026, Trump bought securities of <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-8\">ServiceNow<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button 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Dozens of other transactions took place that same day.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of some of the president&#8217;s transactions overlapped with news from the companies whose stock he was buying or selling, the news outlet <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">NOTUS<\/a> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>One week after Trump&#8217;s Feb. 10 purchase of between $1 million and $5 million of Nvidia stock, for instance, that company <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">announced<\/a>\u00a0a major chip deal with Meta. <\/p>\n<p>The president also bought between $500,000 and $1 million worth of Nvidia stock one week before the Commerce Department officially\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">approved<\/a>\u00a0the sale of some Nvidia chips to China, NOTUS reported.<\/p>\n<p>The filings did not say if Trump directed any of the trades himself. Some of the transactions are described in the documents as &#8220;unsolicited,&#8221; though that designation was unclear. OGE did not immediately respond to CNBC&#8217;s request for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/15\/trump-stock-trade-tech-oge.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars \u2014 including large purchases and sales of tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta \u2014 in the first three months of 2026, new disclosure forms reveal. Trump&#8217;s filings with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show more than 3,700 transactions, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-332564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}