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Global stocks tumble after Trump tariff blitz

1 August 2025 19:59 | News

Global stocks fell after slapping the United States with dozens of tariffs, and investors are worried about the US business data that could sue or disrupt the Fed rate deduction in September.

Stoxx 600 fell about one percent in the first hour of the process on Friday.

Since the beginning of April, it was 1.7 percent lower per week for the biggest weekly decline.

Both Nasdaq futures and S&P 500 futures fell by about one percent.

Late on Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that applied tariffs ranging from 10 to 41 percent to US imports from foreign countries.

The rates were determined as 25 percent for India’s exports to the US, 20 percent for Taiwan, 19 percent for Thailand and 15 percent for South Korea.

In addition, the US-Meksika-Kanada trade agreement has increased its duties on Canada goods from 25 percent to 25 percent for all products that are not within the scope of the trade agreement, but a wider trade agreement to Mexico was saved from 90-day higher tariffs to negotiate.

“August 1, the announcement of the tariffs on August 1 is a little worse than expected, Wei said Wei Yao, the chief of research chairman and chief economist in Societe Generale.

The market response, said that the global presence of April is not as variable as it decreases.

“Thanks to worse threats, we get used to the idea that 15-20 percent of tariffs are managed and acceptable.”

MSCI’s Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell by 1.5 percent of the largest index, bringing the total damage to about 2.7 percent this week.

Nikkei from Japan was 0.6 percent lower, Chinese blue chips decreased by 0.5 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost more than one percent.

Overnight, Wall Street could not withstand a previous rally.

The data showed that inflation increased in June, the prices of new tariffs are higher and the price prints may intensify, while the weekly unemployed claims showed that the labor market remained on a stable basis.

According to CME’s Fedwatch, the FED fund festival transactions compared to 65 percent before the federal reserve was kept constant on Wednesday, the FED funding transactions means only 39 percent decrease in September.

Now, too much US will be dependent on business data, then Friday and any upward surprise can pricit the chances of a deduction in September.

The estimates focused on an increase of 110,000 in July, while the unemployed rate rose from 4.1 percent to 4.2 percent.

Greenback, since the end of the end of 2022, the largest weekly increase, the dollar index this week, an increase of 1.5 percent against peers this week, the US ratio deductions found the support of expectations.

The tariff news was seen to have little effect on the Canadian dollar.

Yen was the biggest lost in a night, but 170.5 Yen won 0.2 percent.

The Japan Bank kept interest rates on Thursday and revised the expectations of close -term inflation, but a little pigeon was coming at the Governor Kazuo Ueda News Conference.

Two -year Treasury returns decreased to 3.9428 percent, while the comparison increased two basis points to 4,382 percent after 2 BPS shifting during the night.

Oil prices continued to decrease after a decrease in a night.

24 cents per cents per barrel.

Spot gold prices increased by 0.1 percent ounce.


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