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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…
Share prices fell for a second day on Friday in Asia and Europe, and futures market trading indicated that U.S. share prices might soon slip further as well, as worries persisted about the economic effect of President Trump’s broad tariffs. The Nikkei 225 Index in Japan fell 2.8 percent. That matched a drop on Thursday…
