[ad_1] Since re-entering office, President Trump has issued a flurry of tariffs in an effort to rewire the global economy. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump unveiled his most aggressive policies to date, sparing few countries around the world. A 10 percent base line rate for the world went into effect on Saturday, with much higher ones […]
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A global market rout intensified Monday following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs and Beijing’s retaliation with 34% duties on all US imports starting April 10.Stock markets across Asia plunged sharply, with investor sentiment collapsing as fears of a global trade war took hold. Analysts say over $9 trillion in […]
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his decision to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from around the world, saying he would not back off unless trade imbalances with the US were addressed. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump acknowledged the economic uncertainty […]
[ad_1] Representative AI image generated by Denny NEW DELHI: Asian stock markets nosedived on Monday as global financial turmoil deepened, triggered by US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and China’s retaliatory measures. With fears of a full-blown trade war mounting, US futures pointed to further losses on Wall Street, compounding Friday’s historic meltdown.Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 […]
[ad_1] Amadou Bagayoko, a Malian guitarist and composer who with his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, formed Amadou & Mariam, inventing a broadly accessible sound that made fans of people worldwide who otherwise knew little about music from Africa, died on Friday in Bamako, Mali’s capital. He was 70. His death was announced by the […]
[ad_1] President Trump’s top aides raced to defend his expansive global tariffs on Sunday, downplaying the prospect that his new taxes on imports could cause a significant spike in prices or tip the U.S. economy into a painful recession. As Mr. Trump departed Mar-a-Lago for another day of golfing at his club in Jupiter, Fla., […]
[ad_1] UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday declared that the United Kingdom is prepared to deploy direct state intervention to protect British industries from the shockwaves of sweeping tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Starmer said the world had entered a new era where the “old assumptions can no […]
[ad_1] Global markets were rattled on Friday as US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff war triggered a massive sell-off, erasing more than $9 trillion in market capitalisation since his second-term inauguration on January 20. The Wall Street meltdown, the worst since the Covid -19 pandemic, sent shockwaves across global financial centres. The S&P 500 plunged […]
[ad_1] Donald Trump said ‘it’s going very well’ after he was asked to comment on the market crash following his tariff announcements. President Donald Trump Thursday said the response to his major tariffs has been very good. “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like what a patient gets operated on, and […]
[ad_1] Trump tariff mastermind Howard Lutnick said there’s no way the president would back off on reciprocal tariffs. Donald Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday said that people should just let the president run the global economy because he knows what he has been doing. He’s been talking about it for 35 years, Lutnick said […]
