Trump, Liberation Day and tariffs
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If the tariffs are maintained by the Trump administration and if other nations impose retaliatory tariffs, both the U.S. and other countries "will suffer serious recessions," said Mark Zandi, chief e...
From CBS News
Wednesday was “Liberation Day,” the start of a multifront trade war President Donald Trump is waging against nearly all of our trading partners.
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Some economists predict lower-income households will feel the biggest blow.
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Mega-cap tech stocks led the rout, with Apple posting its worst two-day drop since March 2020. Financial stocks also suffered steep losses.
The White House had finalized a TikTok divestment deal earlier this week before President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff rollout flipped the Chinese government’s position on the issue, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The US dollar has been falling as President Donald Trump rolls out his tariffs, and it plunged after he unveiled much steeper-than-expected duties on "Liberation Day." That goes against what markets had anticipated before he launched his trade war.
U.S. stocks continued their plunge in early trading on Friday, just hours after China announced retaliatory tariffs in response to President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" levies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 1,
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CGTN isn’t the only state media outlet to use AI to slam Trump’s trade policy. New China TV, the English-language social-media-focused brand of China’s official state news service Xinhua, also published on April 3 a three-minute, 18-second sci-fi short called “T.A.R.I.F.F.”
President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping reciprocal tariffs on what he deemed “Liberation Day” earlier this week. The tariffs and threat of a global trade war sent Wall Street spiraling, and some are saying it’s Smoot-Hawley all over again.
The U.S. dollar is down 6% versus the euro so far in 2025, which means European vacations are unlikely to be a bargain this summer.