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Markets settled overnight, brushing off the volatility of the potential tariff wars and resuming upward momentum on equities. The postponement of tariffs on Canada and Mexico, allayed market fears of an all-out trade war, while China responded defiantly.
Read more →Market volatility remains high, due to the tariff wars, launched by the Trump administration. Trump had imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, over the weekend, coming into effect Monday.
Read more →Global equity markets plummeted, to begin the new week, following announcements of US tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. Trump revealed that they would become effective immediately, in an effort to control the borders and trade imbalances.
Read more →Markets turned heavily negative Friday, when it was announced that tariffs would be imposed on Canada, Mexico and China, beginning Saturday the 1st day of February. The trade wars may have already begun, and this is exactly what markets were fearing.
Read more →The ECB followed Trumps advice, and cut rates by 25 basis points, unlike the Fed. The Fed decided to resist Trumps monetary advice and hold rates steady, citing inflationary pressures and uncertainty. The ECB was more proactive and cut rates a further 25 basis points, despite resurgent inflation.
Read more →Markets remained nervous ahead of the Fed rate decision. The Fed are expected to leave rates unchanged, despite pressure from Trump, for all Central Banks to cut rates.
Read more →US equity markets staged a ‘dead cat bounce’ recovery, following the huge sell-off in the previous session, predominantly in the tech-heavy NASDAQ. The darling of last year's rally in US share prices, Nvidia, stabilised after losing US$600 Billion in the previous session.
Read more →US markets tumbled under the challenge of a new open-source AI release from China, ‘DeepSeek’. This new AI was tested and came up Trumps against their American competitors, while initially costing a miniscule $6million, to set up.
Read more →The surge in equities this past week fizzled out, with markets gasping for breath, following a huge week of fundamental change following Trump’s inauguration. Trump appeared by ‘Videolink’ at Davos and set another fox into the henhouse.
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