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The White House does not seem concerned enough about crashing global stock prices to reverse its massive trade tariffs, and the Federal Reserve appears in no hurry to deliver rapid interest rate cuts. * On Sunday, Trump indicated he was not concerned about losses that have already wiped out trillions of dollars in value from share markets around the world. Taiwan's president has taken to X to pledge a "golden age" of shared prosperity with the U.S.

Less-than-truckload stocks bore the brunt of Liberation Day tariffs, falling 18% on average following the announcement and adding to an already down year. The post LTL stocks bloodied post-Liberation Day, estimates cut ahead of Q1 reports appeared first on FreightWaves.

President Donald Trump warned Americans in 2024 that a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris would be a vote for a market meltdown.

(Bloomberg) -- Europe’s defense and aerospace stocks plunged on fears that US tariffs could upset the industry’s supply chains, and as investors booked profits on some of the region’s best-performing shares of 2025.Most Read from BloombergHousing Agency Aims to Relocate Its DC HeadquartersBoston Mayor Wu Embraces Trump Resistance as Campaign Heats UpThis Skinny Mexico City Tower Is Just 14 Feet Wide on One SideThe Irish Hot Press Is the Low-Tech Laundry Trick the World NeedsWhat Would ‘Transport

Wall Street leaders issued warnings on U.S. tariffs, with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon saying they could have lasting negative consequences, while fund manager Bill Ackman said they could lead to an "economic nuclear winter." In Dimon's annual letter to shareholders, published on Monday following a rout last week that wiped off trillions of dollars from global stock markets, he expressed concern about how the tariffs would impact America's long-term economic alliances. "The economy is facing considerable turbulence (including geopolitics)," Dimon wrote.

European equities' impressive start to 2025 has been obliterated in three sessions of heavy selling, while executives tot up the potential impact of U.S. tariffs on supply chains, possibly forcing them to ditch previous financial predictions. U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs are more sweeping than many market players feared, sending global stocks plummeting as investors flee to safe-haven assets amid recession worries. Companies in Europe's STOXX 600 index, which had its best first-quarter relative to the U.S. S&P 500 in a decade, had been expected to report unbroken quarterly earnings growth through 2025 and into 2026, according to LSEG data.

America’s trading partners wrestled with responses to U.S. President Donald Trump's blast of tariff hikes and some planned to send negotiators to Washington, while the head of the European Union’s executive commission offered mutual reduction of tariffs - while warning that retaliation was an option too. China has already hit back against the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs and similar actions from Europe and elsewhere remain a significant possibility. The U.S. and the EU had a zero-for-zero deal on wine and spirits from 1997 to 2018, and reducing many tariffs to zero was a goal of complex negotiations for a US-Europe free-trade deal before negotiations stalled in 2016.

Shares in British sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion underperformed a stock market rout on Monday, reflecting both its heavy exposure to key partner Nike and U.S. tariffs. Ahead of a trading and strategy update scheduled for Wednesday, shares in JD Sports were down 6%, taking losses over the last month to over 18%. The FTSE 100 index of blue chip stocks was down 4% on fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff announcement last week.

(Bloomberg) -- The carnage in financial markets worsened on Monday with stressed-out investors abandoning hopes that President Donald Trump would change his tariff policy.Most Read from BloombergHousing Agency Aims to Relocate Its DC HeadquartersBoston Mayor Wu Embraces Trump Resistance as Campaign Heats UpThis Skinny Mexico City Tower Is Just 14 Feet Wide on One SideThe Irish Hot Press Is the Low-Tech Laundry Trick the World NeedsWhat Would ‘Transportation Abundance’ Look Like?Stocks tumbled, t

Argentina's mortgage market, for years almost non-existent due to spiraling triple-digit inflation and high borrowing costs, is starting to show signs of coming back to life under the pro-market reforms of libertarian President Javier Milei. Monthly new mortgages in Buenos Aires province, home to 40% of the country's population, hit the highest level since 2018 at the start of the year, data from the local college of notaries show. Milei, a bombastic economist who took office in late 2023, has shaken up the country with tough austerity and cost-cutting, which has helped bring down inflation, overturn a deep fiscal deficit, and boost confidence among investors and banks.