There has been one common theme from Corporate America throughout the last two months as the Trump administration's trade war has taken hold: shot-calling CEOs have been frozen in their normally hard-charging tracks. CEOs have had to task deputies to uproot decades-old supply chains to avoid super-penalizing tariffs on US imports. At the same time, they have moved to talk down Wall Street earnings expectations for 2025 amid the chance of a US recession; many have opted to pull financial guidance altogether and not say when they will return to offering up clarity on finances. In short, 2025 is proving to be one of the most challenging years to be a CEO in the past decade outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi welcomes to the Opening Bid mic a C-suite insider in Bill George to get insight into what's next for leaders of public companies following a US–China trade thaw. George successfully led medical device player Medtronic for 10 years and has sat on the boards of Goldman Sachs (GS), Target (TGT), ExxonMobil, and Novartis (NVS).

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