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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

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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
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
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
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell speaks during an event hosted by the Economic Club of Chicago.

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

The US Federal Reserve Board’s usually cautious chairman says Trump’s tariffs will lead to higher inflation and lower US economic growth. That won’t go down well in the White House.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Wall Street is sharply lower on Monday in New York.

Trump has successfully blown up the global trading system

The volatility so far this month might be just a reaction to Trump’s tariffs. It might also reflect a structural threat.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Apple has spent decades building a finely calibrated supply chain in China.

The contradictions in Trump’s trade policies are on display

Donald Trump’s exemption of electronic goods from his tariffs highlights the inconsistency, lack of logic and the risks for the US in the way he is pursuing his trade war on everyone.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The US alliance will still be a significant net benefit for Australia and will remain our most important security relationship.

Tariff war could put brakes on post-COVID travel surge

Sharemarket plunges and a weaker dollar, sparked by Donald Trump’s trade war, may prompt more people to stay home rather than head overseas.

  • Chris Zappone
Donald Trump’s tariff policies have sent markets on a roller coast ride.

Cheaper fuel? Five ways the market meltdown affects you

Super balances, home loan repayments and the price of petrol could all be affected by the recent mayhem on financial markets.

  • Clancy Yeates

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