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Trump can pull stocks back from the brink, but bond and currency markets may not be so easily impressed as they rapidly de&dollarize thumbnail
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Trump can pull stocks back from the brink, but bond and currency markets may not be so easily impressed as they rapidly de&dollarize

“The fact that the dollar is going down at the same time, I think, lends some more credibility to the story of investor...

US won’t say whether it’s facilitating return of mistakenly deported man, despite judge’s order thumbnail
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US won’t say whether it’s facilitating return of mistakenly deported man, despite judge’s order

The Trump administration confirmed to a federal judge Saturday that a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported remains confined in El Salvador. The Trump administration...

Germany’s Merz says Trump tariffs risk fanning a financial crisis thumbnail
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Germany’s Merz says Trump tariffs risk fanning a financial crisis

“President Trump’s policies are increasing the risk that the next financial crisis will hit sooner than expected,” Merz told Handelsblatt. German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich...

Harvard professors sue Trump over threat to $9 billion in funds thumbnail
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Harvard professors sue Trump over threat to $9 billion in funds

The administration’s review of Harvard includes $8.7 billion in grants and $225.6 million in contracts. Harvard University’s professors sued the Trump administration on...

Trump’s ‘punitive’ China tariffs could end trade between the world’s two largest economies—and that would be painful, volatile, and dangerous thumbnail
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Trump’s ‘punitive’ China tariffs could end trade between the world’s two largest economies—and that would be painful, volatile, and dangerous

Trade between the world’s two largest economies—a link that defined the world economy for two decades—is on life support. U.S. tariffs on China...

Stocks closed mixed in most volatile session since the pandemic as Wall Street is ‘starting to find a bottom’ thumbnail
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Stocks closed mixed in most volatile session since the pandemic as Wall Street is ‘starting to find a bottom’

Heightened volatility might have paradoxically helped share prices stabilize after last week’s historic sell-off. President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” caught...

Warren Buffett’s son is on track to donate $1 billion in aid to Ukraine this year—and pledges to continue despite Trump’s shaky relations thumbnail
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Warren Buffett’s son is on track to donate $1 billion in aid to Ukraine this year—and pledges to continue despite Trump’s shaky relations

Buffett’s foundation, which focuses on humanitarian needs like agriculture, infrastructure and mine clearance, has contributed about $800 million to Ukraine since the start...

Exclusive: Half of the ‘Hybrid Generation’ would quit their jobs if forced back to office full&time, unless they get a pay rise, survey finds thumbnail
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Exclusive: Half of the ‘Hybrid Generation’ would quit their jobs if forced back to office full&time, unless they get a pay rise, survey finds

A new report by BSI finds Gen Z isn’t prepared to be introduced to the old era of fully in-office work. Around half...

Trump’s tariff formula used the wrong value in its calculations, conservative think tank says. ‘This whole thing was rigged.’ thumbnail
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Trump’s tariff formula used the wrong value in its calculations, conservative think tank says. ‘This whole thing was rigged.’

“What’s driving the policy, is that since the 1980s Trump has been a protectionist, and he thinks trade deficits are losses and trade...

Trump trade guru Peter Navarro says Vietnam’s zero&tariff offer ‘means nothing’ because ‘it’s the non&tariff cheating that matters’ thumbnail
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Trump trade guru Peter Navarro says Vietnam’s zero&tariff offer ‘means nothing’ because ‘it’s the non&tariff cheating that matters’

Navarro said trading partners cheat the U.S. via methods like currency manipulation and export subsidies, but also through levying VAT. White House senior...