55 h. ago ASX opens flat after Trump tariffs unsettle Wall Street giants; NAB gains defy market

The Australian sharemarket was treading water in early trade after Wall Street lost more steam amid the uncertainty created by President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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58 h. ago ASX set to fall, Trump tariff uncertainty hurts Wall Street giants; Aussie dollar rises; NAB results out

US stocks are sinking as AI mania on Wall Street loses more steam and as more companies scrub their forecasts for upcoming profits because of uncertainty created by President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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59 h. ago ASX set to fall, Trump tariff uncertainty hurts Wall Street giants

US stocks are sinking as AI mania on Wall Street loses more steam and as more companies scrub their forecasts for upcoming profits because of uncertainty created by President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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3 d. ago ‘The reckoning is here’: Have the Democrats found a billionaire of their own to take down Trump?

Democrats are beginning to mark out territory as they debate how best to take on Donald Trump. Could their next presidential candidate be a billionaire governor?

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4 d. ago Trump exposed a party in a disarray. Now, a firebrand billionaire is ready to fight

Democrats are beginning to mark out territory as they debate how best to take on Donald Trump. Could their next presidential candidate be a billionaire governor?

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4 d. ago One of Australia’s biggest banks is backing Albanese to help it tackle Trump

There’s good reason for Westpac to hope that Labor makes the most of its mandate. That reason? US President Donald Trump.

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7 d. ago ‘They fired the wrong guy’: Blowtorch turns to Hegseth as Waltz pays for Signalgate

US President Donald Trump has removed national security adviser Mike Waltz from his post and sent him off to be an ambassador to the United Nations, a body the president holds in contempt.

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8 d. ago Fight back harder, Harris tells Democrats after Trump hits 100 days

In her first speech since leaving office, the former vice president said Donald Trump was enacting an agenda decades in the making.

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9 d. ago Order 142 and counting: How Trump has used his pen to change America in 100 days

It is the most consequential start of a term of any American presidency, with Donald Trump taking direct aim at law, media, public health and culture.

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9 d. ago US President Donald Trump announces trade talks with Australia

US President Donald Trump says he will be talking to Australia over a potential trade deal.

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9 d. ago ‘They are calling’: Trump confirms Albanese has been trying to speak to him

US President Donald Trump is aware the Australian government has been trying to contact him to discuss trade – and he is yet to take the call.

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1 week ago Donald Trump's approval rating the lowest of any president in seven decades

As the 100-day mark of President Donald Trump's second term approaches, Americans’ views of what he’s done so far have turned deeply negative, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS found.

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1 week ago US and Ukraine presidents in productive meeting before Pope’s funeral

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskyy's shock St Peter's Basilica meeting has been described as “productive”.

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1 week ago US and Ukraine presidents in historic meeting before Pope’s funeral

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskyy's shock St Peter's Basilica meeting has been described as “productive”.

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2 w. ago Trump wants them. China needs them. So Albanese has a $1b scheme to stockpile them

Labor has pledged to create a stockpile for critical minerals, which are coveted by US president Donald Trump while supply is controlled by China.

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2 w. ago Trump shift on China tariffs only adds to the confusion he creates

US President Donald Trump’s ill-thought tariff polices look even sillier now he has floated lowering his 145 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods.

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2 w. ago Global growth is going to stutter amid Trump’s Trade War, IMF warns

US President Donald Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs is now expected to slow economic growth across the world this year.

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2 w. ago Australia faces $13 billion hit as Trump’s tariffs wreak havoc

Uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s tariff war will slow the global economy, a global wake-up call insists.

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2 w. ago US Supreme Court orders White House to 'facilitate' return of mistakenly deported man

The Supreme Court today ordered US President Donald Trump's administration to "facilitate" the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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3 w. ago ‘If I ask him to, he’ll be out of there’: Trump says he can fire Fed boss Powell

US President Donald Trump has again taken aim at US Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell, blasting him for being too slow on lowering interest rates.

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