Some Calm Returns to Asian Markets Even as Trade Tensions Escalate
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Some Calm Returns to Asian Markets Even as Trade Tensions Escalate

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After three days of global market turmoil not seen since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, stocks in Asia regained a measure of calm on Tuesday despite little let up in the escalating trade tensions caused by President Trump’s tariffs. Before markets…

Global Leaders Rush to Woo Trump, Hoping to Sway Him on Tariffs
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Global Leaders Rush to Woo Trump, Hoping to Sway Him on Tariffs

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs on most of America’s trading partners has governments across the globe racing to schedule phone calls, send delegations to Washington and offer up proposals to lower their import taxes in order to escape the levies. On…

Europe Is Ready to Make Its First Countermove to Trump Tariffs
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Europe Is Ready to Make Its First Countermove to Trump Tariffs

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s announcement last week that he will impose a 20 percent tariff on goods coming from the European Union sent shock waves across the 27-nation bloc, the latest move in an unfolding trade war that is tearing the close partners apart. This…

China Tries to Downplay the Trade War’s Effects on Its Economy
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China Tries to Downplay the Trade War’s Effects on Its Economy

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines China’s leaders have sent a clear message about the effects of the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs: Things will be painful, but it is nothing that the country cannot handle. A commentary on Sunday in the Communist Party mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, said Beijing…

Trump’s Tariffs Imperil the Fortunes of a Nissan Factory Town
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Trump’s Tariffs Imperil the Fortunes of a Nissan Factory Town

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Kanda, a small town encircled by mountains on Japan’s southeast coast, is hundreds of miles from any major centers of business or politics. But recently, the only thing on its residents’ minds is President Trump. In restaurants and bars and around Kanda’s small…

Bitcoin Is Down 10% Since Trump’s Global Tariff Announcement
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Bitcoin Is Down 10% Since Trump’s Global Tariff Announcement

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Virtually everyone in the cryptocurrency world celebrated the second election of President Trump, an enthusiastic booster of the industry who promised to turn the United States into the “crypto capital of the planet.” But now the man nicknamed “the first Bitcoin president” is…

Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
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Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There was little rest on Wall Street this weekend. There was plenty of anger, anxiety, frustration, and fear. Anger at President Trump for a brash and chaotic rollout of tariffs that erased trillions of dollars in value from the stock market in two…

Trump Aides Defend His Tariffs Amid Global Blowback
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Trump Aides Defend His Tariffs Amid Global Blowback

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines 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…

Small Businesses Face a ‘Tornado’ of Challenges: Cuts, Freezes and Now Tariffs
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Small Businesses Face a ‘Tornado’ of Challenges: Cuts, Freezes and Now Tariffs

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines It was a bad week for Ben Coryell, who runs a wilderness guiding company in Golden, Colo. He got several calls from customers who wanted to cancel their climbing courses and mountaineering expeditions over the summer, often citing second thoughts about big purchases…