Mortgage rates set to drop after tariff turmoil
Interest rates are forecast to fall further as Donald Trump’s trade taxes fuel economic uncertainty.
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China is not backing down from Trump’s tariff war. What next?
The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down, leaving the world unsure of what to expect.
BDO probed over its audit of crisis-hit homeless housing fund
Financial Reporting Council is reviewing firm’s 2021 audit of Home Reit, which is being wound down
Is the US heading for a recession? Three warning signs to watch
Michelle Fleury explains the factors to watch in the economy after President Trump’s tariff announcements.
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Beijing says US threat to escalate tariffs against China is a ‘mistake on top of a mistake’ and amounts to blackmail
South Korea’s government has approved Tuesday 3 June as the date for a snap presidential election, following the removal from office of Yoon Suk Yeol last week over his declaration of martial law.
The move comes after Yoon’s removal after the country’s constitutional court voted unanimously on Friday to uphold parliament’s decision to impeach him over his ill-fated declaration of martial law in December.
Wall Street traders on Trump tariffs: ‘Without doubt, we’re hitting a recession’
Traders leaving the New York stock exchange were trying to make sense of another day of volatility – what comes next?
Traders leaving the New York stock exchange after the bell closed on Monday were sanguine about what had been, by an measure, a day of mood swings on Wall Street, as waves of volatility shook the stock markets, each one created by another deluge of headlines around Donald Trump’s trade war and global economic uncertainty.
“The markets opened down a lot, then there was a rumor that the tariffs were off, and they went back up, then all bets were off again and it went down,” said Steve Kos of Option Circle, who offered a series of trading day comparisons as he walked out on to Broad Street in lower Manhattan.