tariff threats
Start of a Fresh Week and Month Associated with Heightened Trade War Concerns
June 2, 2025
(189) The U.S. president did not let another weekend go by without stirring the tariff pot. He accused Chinese officials of breaking the terms of the recent deal that had mutually lowered each country’s import tariffs against one another, and he separately threatened to double America’s steel-specific tariff to 50%, which would particularly hit exporters […] More
Day One
January 21, 2025
President Trump’s transactional and zero-sum approach to domestic and foreign policy appears to have been validated in financial markets on his first day back in the White House. The dollar appreciated 1.2% against the Mexican peso, 0.9% versus the Canadian dollar, 0.8% relative to the Australian and New Zealand dollars, 0.6% relative to sterling, and […] More
