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The US president has announced sweeping tariffs of at least 10% on all US imports in what he called ‘Liberation Day’. The EU and China will face rates of 20% and 37% respectively, while imports from ...

It took just one 50-minute speech by US President Donald Trump to undermine global economic stability and raise the prospect ...

The worst sell-off of 2025 (so far) came on April 3, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 3.98%, the S&P 500 down 4 ...

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They could not have imagined a president would use emergency authority to bypass Congress and impose tariffs on the entire ...

On April 9, 2025—what President Donald Trump has now dubbed “Liberation Day”—the United States will begin imposing a sweeping ...