Currencies
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Home of global capital? Investors run from Trump’s America
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Donald Trump’s policies will secure America’s position as the home of global capital. The rest of the world doesn’t buy it.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
Latest
- Updated
- Sharemarket
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
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
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
‘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
- Opinion
- IMF
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
- Opinion
- Wall Street
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
- Opinion
- Federal Reserve
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
- Opinion
- Wall Street
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
- Opinion
- Trade wars
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
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
Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/currencies-5w5