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Stocks maintained a degree of calm on Tuesday, even as the Trump administration’s chaotic tariff rollout continued to sow more uncertainty. The S&P 500 dipped 0.2 percent for the day after inching higher in the morning, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq also posted a slight loss. President Trump’s whipsawing tariff policies are still driving sentiment on…
Markets in Asia jumped on Monday after temporary freeze on some new tariffs on electronics amid more abrupt shifts in President Trump’s approach to trade policy. Stocks in Japan rose 1 percent while benchmarks went up 2 percent in Hong Kong and less than 1 percent in mainland China. Stocks in Taiwan, a global center…
Market turmoil extended into Wednesday’s trading session in Asia, as stocks across the region faced renewed downward pressure amid the impending imposition of significantly higher taxes on imports to the United States. Benchmark indexes in Japan and Hong Kong opened down more than 3 percent on Wednesday morning, following a day on Wall Street when…
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 opened in China, the government unleashed a series of measures to stabilize…
President Trump’s global tariffs have sent stock markets worldwide into a tailspin, and the S&P 500 on Monday entered bear market territory for the first time since 2022. Mr. Trump has seemed unmoved by the decline. He signaled on Monday that he had no plans to back off on tariffs, insisting that they would bring…
Financial markets in Asia were hit hard by another wave of selling on Monday, with investors and economists grappling with rising odds of a severe economic downturn caused by President Trump’s significant new tariffs on imports. Trading was extremely volatile. Stocks in Japan plunged over 8 percent, while South Korea tumbled about 5 percent. In…
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 days. Anxiety about the state of the private equity industry and other…
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., his…
Markets around the world shuddered on Thursday after President Trump announced across-the-board 10 percent tariffs on all U.S. trading partners except Canada and Mexico, as well as even higher tariffs on dozens of America’s other main trading partners. Futures on the S&P 500, which allow investors to trade the index outside normal trading hours, slumped…
Stocks in Asia tumbled Monday as investors braced for a week of market tumult caused by an expected announcement of more tariffs by President Trump on America’s biggest trading partners. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index fell nearly 4 percent in early trading. Stocks in South Korea and Taiwan were down more than 2 percent. Stocks in…
