Today
Would you pay $900,000 to live in Valencia? This couple did
While Spain and Portugal are cancelling or tightening their golden visa schemes, expats and retirees are finding other ways to live out their lifestyle fantasies.
This Month
Trump’s trade war a boon for Brazil but has US farmers reeling
US agricultural shipments to China sank 54 per cent in January compared with a year earlier. South America’s biggest economy was one of the main winners.
Nations try ‘banding together’ in new global trade era
Officials around the world are dashing to diversify their economies. But the fight between the US and China casts a long shadow.
EU warns of taxing US big tech if Trump trade talks fail
The European Commission president says she wants a “balanced” deal but could hit US services in retaliation.
Trump’s trade ructions will end up disrupting banking and payments
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has lamented an almost exclusively American financial infrastructure. Others feel the same way.
Could Trump’s tariffs decouple Europe from China, too?
The levies may trigger a strategic diversion of Chinese exports from America to the EU, eventually compelling European governments to respond with their own trade barriers.
Europe could end up more like 1980s Qld than 1930s Germany
There’s a problem with being on the lookout for a rerun of the 1930s: you could miss what’s actually happening.
Beijing seeks to build alliances against US
Europe and South-East Asian countries are the best hope for China as it looks to build on commercial and strategic relationships in the region and beyond.
Australia caught in crossfire as China, US seek allies for trade war
Canberra is backing in a potential free trade deal with Europe but rebuffs China’s overtures to resist Donald Trump’s tariff wave.
ASX gains $112b; Why Trump backed down; Did he manipulate market?
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
EU adopts tariffs on $45b of US goods in metals fight
The European Commission said the countermeasures can be suspended at any time “should the US agree to a fair and balanced negotiated outcome”.
Trump’s game of bluff on tariffs and tax
China is threatening to “fight to the end” if America imposes yet more tariffs. The respite on global sharemarkets is likely to be temporary if trade tensions continue to escalate.
Only Trump’s tariffs can fix a rigged global trading system
After decades of cheating the United States, world leaders should know this: tariffs are just the beginning.
Tariff maelstrom bears down on Dutton’s election hopes
Labor is as alarmed as any government as Donald Trump’s sharemarket carnage unfolds. But it also sees a political advantage.
British car maker Jaguar Land Rover pauses shipments to US
The company, which makes luxury cars that include Jaguars, Defenders and Range Rovers, does not have manufacturing facilities in the United States.
Musk splits with Trump on tariffs, wants US-EU free trade zone
The billionaire and presidential adviser told Italy’s League party that he’d like America and Europe to move “to a zero-tariff situation”.
Trump open to tariff cuts in return for ‘phenomenal’ offers
The president broadly defended his sweeping tariff program despite a massive sell-off in the sharemarket, saying the economic turbulence would settle.
Trump says global trade is unfair on US. He has a point
The president claims countries have been ripping off the United States for decades. There is some truth to that argument — but also a lot of hypocrisy.
Trump’s ‘beautiful’ trade war will leave an ugly scar
The diplomatic cost of the US president’s tariffs will be enduring. Countries will look to do the serious deals with each other and bypass America in future.
Trump unveils 10pc tariffs on all imports, higher for 60 countries
The president used aggressive rhetoric to describe a global trade system that the US helped to build, saying “our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, plundered”.