Wall Street staged a resilient rebound Tuesday, clawing back some of last week’s historic losses as hopes flickered that President Trump might leave the door open for dialogue with Beijing—even as his administration prepares to implement the most aggressive tariff package in modern U.S. history. The market’s response underscored both its deep anxiety and its…
U.S. stocks roared back on Tuesday, staging a dramatic rebound fueled by hopes that the White House might soften its stance on tariffs after President Trump announced that Japan would dispatch a delegation for trade talks. Investors, rattled by fears of a deepening global trade war, found a glimmer of optimism in signs that negotiations…
South Korean stocks took a significant hit, plummeting more than 5.5 percent on Monday. This marked the fourth consecutive day of losses, a trend triggered by panic selling in response to escalating global trade tensions sparked by US reciprocal tariffs. The Korean won also experienced its most significant fall since the COVID-19 pandemic against the…
Global markets continued to reel from the economic fallout of sweeping U.S. tariffs, with Singapore and Japan suffering their steepest stock declines in years amid mounting fears of a trade-driven global recession. Singapore’s Straits Times Index (STI) nosedived 8.7% at the open on Monday, dropping to 3,494.39, marking the worst single-day fall for the benchmark…
Japan’s Nikkei share average nosedived on Monday to its lowest level in a year and a half, as growing fears of a global recession triggered by sweeping U.S. tariffs sent investors fleeing from equities—particularly bank and tech stocks. The Nikkei 225 index dropped as much as 8.8% during the day to hit 30,792.74, its lowest…
As fresh U.S. tariffs send shockwaves through global and Asian markets, China’s central bank has remained to keep its currency stabile over a sharp devaluation — for now. On Monday, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) set the yuan’s daily midpoint at 7.1980 per U.S. dollar, a four-month low, but crucially still shy of the symbolic…
Asian stock markets plunged on Monday as the economic shock from sweeping new U.S. tariffs sent tremors across global financial markets. Investors across the region reacted with alarm, fearing that an escalating trade war could tip the world’s largest economy into a recession — with serious fallout for export-driven nations in Asia. Markets in Tokyo,…
Enter any Supermarket, you will find all food prices shooting up. Food industry analyst Phil Lempert estimates that about 40,000 items — nearly half of all supermarket products — may be impacted by new tariffs, either directly or through ingredients. The tariffs, part of President Trump’s push for reciprocal trade, aim to counteract what he…
Rising fears over an escalating trade conflict sent shockwaves through global financial markets this week, triggering sharp declines across equities, heightened volatility in currencies and bonds, and growing concern over economic stability. On Wall Street, a key measure of market anxiety — the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) — soared to its highest closing level in…
