1 week ago Wall Street slashes stock market forecasts amid Trump tariff fears

Banks expect gain of just 2% for S&P 500 this year, with JPMorgan and BofA among those lowering estimates

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1 week ago The rare dreaded 'Death Cross' just flashed in the US stock market and now experts fear a Wall Street crash

A rare 'death cross' appeared on the US stock stock market this week, sparking fears that a downturn could be on the horizon.

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1 week ago Wall Street banks rake in $37 billion in best performance for a decade after cashing in on Trump's stock market chaos

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citi Group this year recorded their best combined first-quarter performance in more than a decade.

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2 w. ago Inside the vast stock buying surge 18 minutes before Trump's tariff U

Minutes before President Donald Trump's tariff pause, investors made strangely prudent financial moves. 

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2 w. ago 'Wolf of Wall Street' backs Donald Trump over 'insider trading' on tariffs

Donald Trump said it was a "great time to buy" shortly before pausing tariffs on most countries but Jordan Belfort, the infamous Wolf of Wall Street, believes he wasn't manipulating the market

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2 w. ago The Wolf of Wall Street claims Trump isn’t guilty of market manipulation after tariff U

Jordan Belfort, who previously admitted to stock manipulation himself, has given his verdict on Trump’s trade war

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2 w. ago FTSE 100 Live 10 April: Index set to rebound on tariffs pause, Tesco sees lower profit

Financial markets have soared on relief at Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on most new US tariffs.

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3 w. ago Will the tariffs lead to a recession? Here's how to know if we're in one

President Donald Trump’s sharp tariff hikes last week have sent the stock market into a tailspin, raised alarm bells among Wall Street executives, and heightened many economists’ worries that the U.S. could tip into recession

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3 w. ago Stock market volatility deepens as Wall Street faces rollercoaster opening

The US’s S&P 500 had major swings on Monday.

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3 w. ago Roller coaster US stock markets fall heavily again amid Trump tariff chaos

Latest gyrations on Walls Street come after more than £80 billion wiped off London’s FTSE-100

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3 w. ago Wall Street dives at opening in fresh stock market turmoil caused by Donald Trump tariffs

Volatile trading as US markets open as President Trump shows no signs of backing down over blanket tariffs on US imports

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3 w. ago Roller coaster US stock markets bounce back amid Trump tariff chaos

Latest gyrations on Walls Street come after more than £80 billion wiped off London’s FTSE-100

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer tells firms 'we have your back' as Trump's 'nuclear winter' tariffs hammer Wall St and the FTSE and the EU says it is ready to do a deal

The PM and Chancellor Rachel Reeves used a visit to a Jaguar Land Rover to fight to lessen the impact of the US import tax regime, as Wall Street became the latest market to nose dive.

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3 w. ago Roller coaster US stock markets follow London with heavy falls amid tariff chaos

Latest falls on Walls Street come after more than £80 billion wiped off London’s FTSE-100

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3 w. ago Global stock market meltdown leaves Wall Street fearing repeat of 1987's Black Monday amid Trump tariff fallout

Fears are growing that Wall Street is about to see Black Monday 2 tomorrow - which would make last week's sell-off caused by President Donald Trump's tariffs look tiny. 

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3 w. ago ‘Fundamentally wrong, brutal and paranoid’: how will the world respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs?

The US president’s sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on countries around the world are threatening to reshape the global economy – so, what exactly happens next?On Thursday evening, towards the end of a long week at a textiles factory on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thi Dieu and her husband were watching the news. More than 8,700 miles away, US president Donald Trump was announcing sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on every country around the world. Nowhere was safe, even the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands off the western coast of Australia that, for some unexplained reason, were hit with a 10% tariff.His announcement launched a fierce global trade war and triggered a global market meltdown, including on Trump’s own cherished Wall Street, where hundreds of billions of dollars of stock values evaporated. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ could mean recession in the US and pain worldwide | Steven Greenhouse

The US president’s tariffs are vengeful and impetuous – and will have immense costs with no clear goalWith the huge and painful tariffs that Donald Trump announced on Thursday, “Tariff Man” is acting like a paranoid 12-year-old bully who is convinced that everyone has wronged him, and he wants revenge. But the president’s instrument of revenge – massive tariffs – is going to do serious damage to the US and global economies. Stock market investors are convinced that’s the case, with Wall Street and world stock markets losing trillions of dollars in value in recent days as a result of Trump’s obsession.The president has escalated his risky, vengeful trade war even though the US economy was in strong shape when he took office – the jobless rate was just 4.1%, inflation was below 3% and US economic growth was the strongest in the industrial world, with its stock market at record levels. So it’s unclear whether the US economy needed the shock treatment that Trump is inflicting. The price...

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3 w. ago Trump live updates: Historic stock plunge after tariff announcement leaves Americans rattled

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $6 trillion in two days

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3 w. ago Historic stock plunge leaves Americans rattled after Trump tariff announcement: Live updates

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $6 trillion in two days

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3 w. ago Historic stock plunge after Trump tariff announcement leaves Americans rattled: Live updates

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $6 trillion in two days

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