15 h. ago Donald Trump's rosy assessment of tariffs despite causing stock market chaos

Donald Trump spoke to reporters hours after plunging the stock market into havoc - sparking fears of a recession - with his raft of tariffs, including the 10% on the UK

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24 h. ago US stock market plunges as Trump tariffs wipe £1.5 trillion off Wall Street

Trump slapped a 10% tariff on most US imports and much higher levies on dozens of other countries

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25 h. ago Donald Trump insists US 'going to boom' from tariffs despite stock market plunge

US President Donald Trump revealed a raft of tariffs on Wednesday causing stock markets to plunge but he remains confident saying: "I think it's going very well"

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25 h. ago Trump live updates: President says tariffs rollout ‘going very well’ despite plunging stock market

President Trump says he will impose blanket tariffs on all countries, hitting China and Europe hardest

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25 h. ago Trump denies market turmoil is a problem, claiming ‘stock is going to boom’, as McConnell says tariffs ‘bad policy’

US president insists country is going to flourish as former Republican leader joins widespread criticism of Trump tariffsUS stock markets tumble as investors shaken by Trump tariffsIn the aftermath of the disastrous debate against Donald Trump that ultimately ended his political career, Joe Biden skipped a White House meeting with the congressional Progressive caucus in favor of a Camp David photoshoot with the fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz, a new book says.“You need to cancel that,” Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff and debate prep leader, told the president, as he advocated securing the endorsement of the group of powerful progressive politicians perhaps key to his remaining the Democratic nominee. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago US stock market plunges after Trump tariffs with S&P 500 losing more than 4%

Trump slapped a 10% tariff on most US imports and much higher levies on dozens of other countries

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28 h. ago US stock market plunges after Trump tariffs with S&P 500 losing nearly 4%

The S&P 500 was on track for its worst day since September 2022

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30 h. ago Trump tariff reaction live: Dow Jones plunges at market open after overnight sell

President Trump says he will impose blanket tariffs on all countries, hitting China and Europe hardest

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53 h. ago Trump tariffs latest: Starmer insists UK ‘ruling nothing out’ as president prepares to spark global trade war

Prime minister insists US trade war in ‘nobody’s interest’ as Donald Trump prepares to unveil sweeping tariffs later today

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57 h. ago Trump tariffs latest: Starmer insists UK ‘prepared for all eventualities’ as fears over trade war grow

Prime minister insists US trade war in ‘nobody’s interest’ as Donald Trump prepares to unveil sweeping tariffs later today

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4 d. ago ‘We weren’t stuck’: Nasa astronauts tell of space odyssey and reject claims of neglect

Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams’ story markedly at odds with abandonment narrative painted by Trump and MuskIn the end, whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump liked to insist, astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams were never stuck, nor stranded in space, and definitely not abandoned or marooned.The world heard on Monday, for the first time since their return to Earth two weeks ago, from the two Nasa astronauts whose 10-day flight to the international space station (ISS) last summer turned into a nine-month odyssey. And their story was markedly at odds with the narrative painted from the White House. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump insists US ‘needs’ Greenland for international security

Donald Trump insisted the United States “needs” Greenland for international security.

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9 d. ago Furious Donald Trump 'on the rampage' following leaked war plan texts fiasco

Donald Trump insisted he "didn't know anything" about the messages - leaked after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, was added to his security team's group chat

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1 week ago Tesla sales plunge 42% in Europe and market share continues to shrink amid fallout over Elon Musk's support for hard

Tesla's market share in Europe continued to shrink year-on-year in February, as sales dropped for a second consecutive month despite rising overall EV registrations on the continent.

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2 w. ago Fox host complains that plunging stock market and recession fears are a ‘media creation’

‘The media has gone to war with President Trump to make tariffs the scariest thing in the world,’ Charles Payne fumed on Tuesday

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3 w. ago Newsmax anchor insists there’s silver lining to market plunge: a ‘nosedive’ could help the ‘working man’

‘So perhaps stocks need to take a nosedive so the working man can get a little relief from all of this inflation,’ Rob Schmitt exclaimed

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3 w. ago Donald Trump refuses to rule out US recession as his trade war sparks 'absolute despair' among investors with stock market plunging

On another day of turmoil, the FTSE 100 tumbled 0.9 per cent or 79.66 points to 8600.22 while the main benchmark in Germany fell 1.75 per cent.

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last month Donald Trump on brink of alarming NATO move as he insists UK takes more responsibility

Donald Trump's latest action come as a defiant Keir Starmer reportedly plans to return to Washington DC - with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky - to present a "united front"

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