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Mark Carney walks with wife Diana Fox Carney.

Canadians choose Carney to take on Trump in stunning election victory

National broadcaster CBC has called the election, but it’s not yet known whether the Liberals would form a majority government.

  • Michael Koziol

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Donald Trump is in command - to the detriment of global financial markets.

100 days of destruction: Trump’s first three months are a sea of red ink

Donald Trump’s second time in the White House has produced the worst 100 days for financial markets in half a century.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Yard signs bearing the mugshots of alleged illegal migrants and criminals were erected on the front lawn of the White House.

‘I run the world’: Trump marks 100 days with stunts, boasts and propaganda

The US president also embraced Australian football player Jordan Mailata at a ceremony for the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the Super Bowl in February.

  • Michael Koziol
A shipbuilder in Newport News, Virginia. The US government wants to increase the country’s shipbuilding capacity.

The Chinese stranglehold Donald Trump is desperate to break

The US president wants to turn the tide on China’s shipbuilding dominance. It may be too late.

  • Szu Ping Chan
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.

How Peter Navarro went from Democrat to inmate to Trump’s tariff guru

The man behind the US president’s tumultuous tariff policies has sought for decades to set off the ultimate trade war with China.

  • Michael Kranish and Jeff Stein
Flight Centre downgraded its profit guidance on Monday morning.

Canary in the plane cabin: How Trump is changing where Australians travel

Australian companies operating on the global stage, such as Flight Centre, are becoming prone to infection from the global trade malaise.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Donald Trump’s tariffs have depressed the price of oil.

Trump’s billionaire oil industry donors aren’t getting what they wished for

The US president said “drill, baby, drill” but his tariffs tanked the commodity’s price and they could reduce, not increase, production.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Wall Street’s benchmark index entered a correction this week as fears over Donald Trump’s trade war escalated.

Money is flowing out of Wall Street, so where is it going?

As Donald Trump’s tariff wars throw US markets into a pit of uncertainty, the Australian sharemarket is shaping up as a safe haven.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
US President Donald Trump has sent sharemarkets into a spin.

‘Trump is doing permanent damage’: What’s got global market leaders spooked?

The meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this past week have been dominated by the future of a key building block of globalisation.

  • Colby Smith
An F-35 fighter jet.

How China is controlling Australia’s – and the world’s – rare earths trade

China is threatening to land a knockout blow in its trade war with Donald Trump, targeting a vulnerability in the United States’ most crucial military infrastructure with a strike that was decades in the making.

  • Simon Johanson and Colin Kruger

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