tariff war developments
Sovereign Debt Yields Rise as Fiscal and Tariff Concerns Crowd Out Soft Economic Data
July 14, 2025
(183) A six-basis point increase of the 10-year Japanese government bond yield (JGB) led a rise in comparable sovereign debt yields this Monday that also included increases of two bps in France and Italy and a single basis point in the United States, Germany, Spain and Italy. At 1.58%, the Japanese yield is 19 basis […] More
Back to Panic Mode as U.S. Reciprocal Tariffs Take Effect and China Strikes Back
April 9, 2025
The U.S. tariff on China is now 104%, and China’s government has answered with an 84% levy on imports of U.S. goods. An editorial in yesterday’s NYT by University of Chicago economics professor Brent Neiman, whose collaborated work with three other economists had been cited by the U.S. Trade Representative office as one basis for […] More
