As global markets grow increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war could trigger a global economic recession, corporate bond sales in the United States have ground to a halt. According to informed sources, a $1.1 billion leveraged loan sale, originally intended to finance HIG Capital LLC’s acquisition of Canadian company Converge Technology Solutions […]
US President Donald Trump was negotiating with American allies in the final hours before the tariffs were fully implemented, but he insisted on imposing a 104% tariff on a wide range of Chinese goods, which dampened optimism about avoiding a brutal trade war. Trump and senior administration officials said Tuesday that the United States is […]
The American investor class – the top 10% who own almost all the stocks – is rapidly coming to terms with its diminished status in the era of Donald Trump’s trade offensive. From company executives who calculate stock options to billionaire hedge fund tycoons and everyone in between, they are now collateral damage. The market […]
US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose an additional 50% import tax on China, while preparing to negotiate with Japan and Israel, has left the market puzzled about the intention behind his comprehensive tariff plan. On Monday, the stock market fluctuated sharply as Trump posted a series of messages on social media about his talks […]
Frightened by the prospect that Donald Trump’s trade war could trigger a global recession, investors have flocked to the US Treasury market – at least for now, they are ignoring the risk that the same punitive tariffs could spark another round of inflation. After U.S. government bonds rose, pushing the two-year Treasury yield to its […]
US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of the highest US tariffs in a century, intensifying efforts to reshape the global economy and unsettling investors who believe that a trade war poses risks to US economic growth. Trump announced on Wednesday that he would impose at least a 10% tariff on all goods exported to […]
US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a “secondary tariff” on Russian oil buyers if Vladimir Putin refused to stop the fighting in Ukraine. Later, he added that he believed the Russian president would not “go back on his word”. According to NBC News, Trump said in his comments that he was “annoyed” and “very […]
The United States is striving to control all major infrastructure and mineral investments in Ukraine’s future, which may give it a veto over any role played by other allies of Kyiv and undermine its efforts to join the European Union. According to a draft document obtained by Bloomberg News, President Donald Trump’s administration has demanded […]
One is known as the “Oracle of Omaha”, the other as “Superman”. Warren Buffett and Li Ka-shing are the two most respected investors in the East and the West. Now both are over 90 years old, with only a two-year age gap, yet they are both hoarding cash. Is this a sign of a financial […]
Deutsche Bank said that the Federal Reserve’s withdrawal of liquidity support poses the greatest risk to the status of the US dollar as a reserve currency since the end of World War II. Reuters this week, citing unnamed sources, said that the European Central Bank and regulatory officials held informal discussions about the possibility that […]