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It was another day of wild swings on the New York Stock Exchange.

ASX closes higher after another manic session on Wall Street

Wall Street continued its wild swings overnight as evidence builds that the US economy is buckling under the weight of Donald Trump’s trade war.

  • Gemma Grant

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Investors fear Trump’s tariffs could bring a recession if left unaltered because they could freeze global trade.

Tech stocks, banks bolster ASX despite higher-than-expected inflation

The Australian sharemarket has trimmed some of its early gains after the inflation data, but is still up for a fifth consecutive day.

  • Gemma Grant
Gains in Australian stocks are expected to be muted.

ASX gains for a fourth session, led by energy and tech stocks

The Australian sharemarket has pushed past the 8000-mark after a late wave of buying helped Wall Street post its longest advance since November.

  • Staff writers
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
The misinformation has left traders flummoxed.

‘Trading off tweets’: Trump’s U-turns keep markets on edge

Any other time, it would have been a signal that the worst of the sharemarket’s slide is nearing an end, setting off buy signals at trading desks across Wall Street. But not now.

  • Alexandra Semenova, Esha Dey and Carmen Reinicke
It’s been another strong session on Wall Street overnight.

ASX closes week on a high as Trump’s softer tone sparks global rally

The Australian sharemarket extended its gains on Thursday on the back of miners, banks and tech stocks.

  • Nick Newling and Gemma Grant
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Trump’s “Liberation Day” now seems like an aeon ago.

The Trump administration is just making it up as it goes

Donald Trump’s backflips on his astronomical China tariffs and firing Fed chair Jerome Powell show that markets can protect the world from his worst instincts – to some extent.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US stocks rebounded overnight on hopes the trade war could de-escalate.

ASX gains as investors latch on to tariff relief

The Australian sharemarket is back to where it was before US “Liberation Day” tariffs sparked a meltdown, amid hopes that tariff-related hostilities between the US and China are easing.

  • Gemma Grant
Trump cannot simply announce a partial freeze on tariffs and expect investors in the bond market to forget that he ever declared a global trade war.

Trump’s trade war could blow up the IMF and World Bank

Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the institutions it helped create.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Jerome Powell and his officials hold rates steady as they resist Donald Trump’s calls to cut borrowing costs.

Regulators warned the US bond market was vulnerable. Trump is proving them right

The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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