Friday, August 1, 2025, will be remembered on Wall Street as the day a long-simmering sense of uncertainty finally boiled over. A potent combination of disappointing economic data and renewed fears over President Trump’s aggressive tariff policy sent U.S. stock markets into a tailspin, with the S&P 500 suffering its steepest single-day decline since June….
The global trading system, a decades-old edifice built on a fragile consensus of open markets and free trade, is once again being reshaped by a single executive order from the White House. President Donald Trump has enacted a sweeping new tariff regime, setting a wide range of rates for nearly 70 countries based on what…
Date: July 28, 2025 The global economy breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday as the United States and the European Union announced a comprehensive trade agreement, effectively averting what had become an increasingly perilous path towards a full-blown transatlantic trade war. After months of tense negotiations and brinkmanship, characterized by threats of escalating tariffs…
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