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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

Donald Trump urged the US oil industry to “drill, baby, drill”, but his tariffs sank the oil price and 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
Ninth generation farmer Caleb Ragland on his property in Magnolia, Kentucky.

‘We don’t want to be the sacrificial lamb’: The farmers hurt by Trump’s tariffs

Caleb Ragland voted Republican three times and doesn’t regret it. But he is about to plant a field of crops that China loves to buy – and he is very worried.

  • Michael Koziol
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A robot stands next to a concept flying vehicle from Chery at the Shanghai auto show.

China has an army of robots on its side in the tariff war

Enormous investments in factory equipment and artificial intelligence are giving China an edge in car manufacturing and other industries.

  • Keith Bradsher
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
Sir Richard Branson has become one of the few business leaders to publicly criticise Trump.

The billionaire speaking out against Trump

Richard Branson didn’t hold back in his comments, saying Trump has “put America on the wrong side of history”.

  • Stephen Castle
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On TikTok, there’s only one winner from Trump’s tariff death spiral with China

First came the AI-generated videos depicting Americans working in sweatshops. Since then, it’s been open slather, gifting Beijing a PR win.

  • Lisa Visentin

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/trade-wars-1lyy