Donald Trump's announcement of a pause on tariffs has effectively killed off Anthony Albanese’s strongest defence to the economic tirade, writes Mark Riley.
Mark Riley
INSIDE STORY: From Tuesday evening to Wednesday afternoon, Trump and his trade advisers spoke to several Republican lawmakers and top foreign leaders who raised concerns about the faltering global markets.
Michael Birnbaum, Natalie Allison, Cat Zakrzewski
The US President’s triple tariff backflip with a twist has sent markets skyrocketing as the horror that investors had envisaged has lifted — for now. But don’t read too much into it.
Jackson Hewett
US President Donald Trump has waged war on showers, signing a new executive order affecting showers, toilets, sinks and dishwashers.
Max Corstorphan
Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the “beautiful, clean” coal industry and says he wants to compete with Australia on production of the fossil fuel.
Danielle Le Messurier & Seung Min Kim
US President Donald Trump has signalled a tariff on imported pharmaceuticals, a policy that is expected to directly hit Australia’s second-largest export to the US.
WA is vastly “unprepared” for the fallout from Donald Trump’s tariffs, a former trade commissioner believes, as two overseas envoys leave critical markets empty.
Dylan Caporn
The behaviour of US consumers offers some good news for businesses that are rushing to figure out how to respond to the upheaval caused by Donald Trump’s global trade war.
Daniela Sirtori, Carrington York and Rthvika Suvarna
US President Donald Trump has imposed a 104 per cent tariff after China missed his deadline to remove a retaliatory tariff as a fierce trade war with alarming global impacts erupts.
Economy-wise, it’s baffling how Trump’s slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ has been an electoral winner.
Raymond Da Silva Rosa
Australia’s consumer sentiment has plunged to a six-month low after US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs triggered carnage on global stock markets.
Cheyanne Enciso
Tensions between the United States and China are escalating by the minute, with the People’s Republican labelling Donald Trump’s action as ‘blackmail’ and committing to ‘fight to the end’.
Tensions between the United States and China are escalating by the minute, with the People’s Republic labelling Donald Trump’s action as ‘blackmail’ and committing to ‘fight to the end’.
US President Donald Trump has issued an ominous threat to the People’s Republic of China, warning President Xi if action is not taken by Wednesday, ‘all talks’ between the two nations will be ‘terminated’.
Australian shares have plunged to their biggest loss in five years, with more than $100 billion wiped from stock values amid widening fears that Donald Trump’s tariffs will drag the world into recession.
Sean Smith
The parent company of surfwear brand Rip Curl and footwear label Oboz has warned Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs will lead to higher prices for its products.
The S&P-ASX200 pared back a wild 6.14 per cent fall on opening today to finish 4.23 per cent lower - still its biggest decline since May 2020.
US President Donald Trump has addressed the global market bloodbath, saying he doesn’t ‘want anything to go down’ but claimed sometimes you need to ‘take medicine’.
The US has taken the extraordinary step of revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders.
RECAP: Anthony Albanese has extended his campaign lead over Peter Dutton after the Coalition dropped again with voters in the latest Newspoll.
David Johns
Trump’s global tariffs have bombed the Australian share market and thrown up new affronts for WA, which now has to assert its place in a new world left alienated politically and commercially by Uncle Sam.
Simone Grogan, Caitlyn Rintoul, Joe Spagnolo & Bloomberg
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says tariffs are not ‘the way forward’, opening up about the next steps the Albanese Government will take as it tries to stem the fallout.
Joe Spagnolo
US President Donald Trump has shared a confronting video of what he says is an attack on Houthis, presumably in Yemen.
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