Weekly Strategy Perspective: Running the Gauntlet – How Businesses are Navigating Uncertainty

Week Ending 06-06-2025. The Through Line: Business leaders entered the year with high hopes for a constructive economic backdrop. The events of the past few months have left many reeling, however, as trade wars, a volatile market and rapidly deteriorating consumer sentiment upended the status quo. Fortunately, most have become skilled at dodging and weaving thanks to a broad array of challenges they faced down over the past decade. The tools and tactics they are enlisting to deal with the current tests should leave them solidly positioned to thrive as clarity emerges.