1999grupo Friday Briefing: Trump’s Tariffs Rattle the Markets

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betexImageCredit...The New York TimesU.S. stocks nose-dived after Trump’s tariffs rollout

Wall Street tumbled to its worst day since the pandemic yesterday in response to President Trump’s major round of tariffs on U.S. imports1999grupo, as countries reeling from the blow weighed countermeasures. Stocks in Asia and Europe also fell.

Some European leaders vowed to retaliate after Trump slapped a 20 percent tariff on the E.U. “If you take on one of us, you take on all of us,” Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said.

China, which faces a new 34 percent tariff on top of the blanket import tax imposed earlier this year, vowed to respond to “safeguard its own rights and interests.” Britain said that negotiations with the U.S. would continue.

The S&P 500 fell 4.8 percent, its worst drop since June 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The reaction suggested that the scale of the tariffs had come as a surprise. Apple led a tech sell-off, falling about 9 percent.

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Reactions: Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada had introduced a 25 percent tariff on cars and trucks and called for a new global trading order without the U.S. President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico announced plans to increase domestic production of food,66jogo.com energy, textiles and other items in a bid to blunt the impact of tariffs. France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, called on European companies to suspend all investments in the U.S. “until things have been clarified.”

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His debunked claims about Haitian migrants stealing and eating their neighbors’ pets in Springfield, Ohio, helped stir a firestorm over immigration in that community, which has dealt with bomb threats and evacuations after Mr. Trump made his comments.

Speaking in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where Vice President Kamala Harris has a slight edge in recent polls, Mr. Trump bristled at the notion that his struggles with women voters could cost him the election and suggested that his tough talk about immigration and economic proposals would resonate with them.

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