Donald Trump’s second time in the White House has produced the worst 100 days for financial markets in half a century.
Donald Trump’s backflips on his astronomical China tariffs and firing Fed chair Jerome Powell show that markets can protect the world from his worst instincts – to some extent.
Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the institutions it helped create.
Rather than taking a hard look at his troubled defence secretary,the president is studying how he could fire the Federal Reserve chairman for failing to cut interest rates.
The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.
The US President’s tariff war has brought back fears of stagnation and inflation,but why is it sending gold prices through the roof?
The US Federal Reserve Board’s usually cautious chairman says Trump’s tariffs will lead to higher inflation and lower US economic growth. That won’t go down well in the White House.
The world is now seeing Donald Trump’s America for exactly what it is becoming:a rogue state led by an impulsive strongman disconnected from the rule of law.
We follow the politicians on the campaign trail.
Fed chair Jerome Powell has,not for the first time,found himself between a rock and a hard place. It didn’t have to be like this.