Global stock markets fall as new Trump tariffs loom

[groundloop]

Source: The Guardian

Stock markets across the world fell heavily on Monday after Donald Trump suggested that new tariffs he is expected to announce this week would hit “all countries”.

Shares fell across Asia-Pacific markets and in Europe after the US president crushed hopes that “reciprocal tariffs” expected on Wednesday would only target countries that have the largest trade imbalances with the US.

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On Monday, the threat of a deepening trade war spooked investors. In Toyko, Japan’s Nikkei index lost 4% and South Korea’s Kospi fell 3%.

The wave of selling swept into European markets as well – the UK’s FTSE 100 fell 1.3% to a two-week low, and Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC both lost 2%.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/31/trump-tariffs-global-stock-markets

[Bengus81]

1. Wait till tomorrow...our "Liberation Day" as fat Hitler puts it....

Or is going to claim that Canada's prime minister kissed his ass on the supposed phone call? Not a chance Trump.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. April 2 is Wednesday. April 1 is Corpulent Caligula Clown Day. . . . nt

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Correction gets rolling this tariff-tax crash

could see 10-12,000 DJIA points on the downside. Like about 28-30,000 from today's 41,000

[Scrivener7]

4. How many will he back off from? I'm guessing most.

[Marthe48]

5. Worldwide destruction

I bet the rich will own much more stock when this is over, but why on earth won't anyone stop this madness?

[chicoescuela]

6. That's ok I didn't need any money from my 401k or social security.

I will just keep going to work until I drop dead
Thank you

[70sEraVet]

7. I would love to see a list of how many of Trump's mega-donors......

did a massive dump of their stock portfolios just hours before that announcement. And of course, Trump's stock holdings, too.

[turbinetree]

8. And how many from the world wide firms gave money to the asshole..........

because after all we now have Citizens United..............

[Owens]

9. Just watch the billionaires buy up everything

[LudwigPastorius]

10. OK, corporate America, time to do your thing and get rid of Trump.

Plunging the entire world into an economic depression far outweighs the tax cuts you were all going to get.

[Cheezoholic]

11. Headlines like that will certainly make him feel like The Great and Powerful Oz n/t

[SWBTATTReg]

12. I hope that all countries move to start seizing tRUMP's properties, using the excuse that damages from his unwarranted

tariffs is causing untold damages to the world population, thus, seizing these properties is warranted.