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Three months on, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff spree in April 2025 continue to reverberate across East Asia. The United States ...

Bitcoin was surging earlier this year on retail investors buying into ETFs but took a hit, along with the broader stock ...

The world is coming to terms with the new Trump-era reality: Everything is trade. Why it matters: President Trump is ...

With Trump seeing markets endorse his economic policies, it raises the question of why would he retreat. Back in April, the ...

All of President Donald Trump's tariff talk this week is doing something a bit unexpected to the U.S. currency right now. As of Friday, the ICE U.S. Dollar Index, a measure of the greenback against ...

Trump threatened to escalate tariffs beyond 35% if Canada opts to retaliate with tariffs on U.S. goods. Canadian goods are also subject to sector-specific tariffs, such as 50% levies on steel and ...

Currently, it’s August 1st for the expiration on the pause in tariffs, but nobody seems to be doing more than writing that in pencil. So when President Trump announces a new +35% tariff on all ...

By any traditional economic measure, the case for more tariffs on Brazil doesn't exist. In 2024, the U.S. ran a $7.4 billion ...

President Trump on Friday morning threw barbs at Trump-appointed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, against whom he’s ...

Something different is happening to the U.S. dollar, which recently completed its worst first half of any calendar year since ...

The free-trade era is over. U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff letters show that tariffs - to protect domestic industries and to raise revenue for a deeply indebted government - are the way forward.