2 d. ago Petrol prices to tumble further amid turmoil on global oil market

Australian petrol prices are expected to continue dropping in the lead-up to the Easter and Anzac Day holidays as oil markets reel from Donald Trump’s tariff war.

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7 d. ago ASX tempers gains, but still up $105 billion as it went from fear to frenzy

The Australian sharemarket has slowed its rally, but was still sharply higher at lunchtime after Wall Street had its third-best day since World War II following Donald Trump’s stunning tariffs reversal.

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7 d. ago ASX gains more than $110 billion as market goes from fear to frenzy

The Australian sharemarket skyrocketed at the open after Wall Street had its third-best day since World War II following Donald Trump’s stunning tariffs reversal.

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7 d. ago US President Donald Trump raises tariffs on China to 125 per cent

US and China trade war escalates as President Donald Trump raises tariffs on Chinese imports to 125 per cent.

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8 d. ago Darth Orange: Trade war shows Donald Trump has embraced the dark side

It’s likely this trade war is just the first episode in what will be a four-year-long saga. A New Hope can’t come soon enough.

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9 d. ago Trump took a massive swing on tariffs against China. It may cost him personally

After announcing global tariffs that sent stock markets into a spin, Donald Trump went golfing. The impacts of his trade war should have been glaringly obvious.

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2 w. ago Donald Trump spent 48 minutes declaring war on trade. We fact

The US president unveiled his global tariff policy during a long and sometimes meandering press conference on what he dubbed ‘Liberation Day’. We analysed what he said.

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2 w. ago This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years

A photo taken on the weekend shows just how much the world is uniting to fight back against Donald Trump’s damaging trade war.

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2 w. ago ASX loses more than $40b as investors brace for ‘Liberation Day’

Mining giants BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue all plunged, as investors worry about the hit to global growth from US Donald Trump’s escalating trade war.

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3 w. ago Trump is making a huge blunder. Here’s how we seize the moment

The tariffs war ignited by Donald Trump will eventually run out of steam, but it’s what we do before then that really matters.

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last month NAB boss worried ‘tariff madness’ could put future rate cuts at risk

CEOs from two major Australian banks have warned that an escalation of Donald Trump’s trade war would harm global economic growth and drive up inflation.

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