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Justice Department's Pam Bondi fires 20 officials involved in Trump prosecution: Report
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Business Standard
25 minutes ago
- Business Standard
Trump says he's considering 'taking away' Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship
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Trump unveiled a wave of letters again threatening key trading partners with high tariff rates even as he delayed the increased duties until Aug. 1 and suggested that he was still open to negotiations. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Bloomberg Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump ramped back up his tariff plans with an eye on copper and Canada, deflating hopes that the administration was dialling back its initial Liberation Day levies first announced in said that US imports of copper — a vital component in power networks, plumbing and industrial machinery — will face a 50% duty from Aug. 1. He also threatened a 35% tariff on some Canadian goods and raised the prospect of increasing levies on most other countries, following threats to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil over its domestic political Thursday, Trump told NBC News he's eying blanket tariffs of 15% to 20% on most trading partners who haven't been informed yet of their rates. The current global baseline minimum levy for nearly all US trading partners is 10%.Here are some of the charts that appeared on Bloomberg this week on the latest developments in the global economy, markets and geopolitics:Trump unveiled a wave of letters again threatening key trading partners with high tariff rates even as he delayed the increased duties until Aug. 1 and suggested that he was still open to negotiations. Still, the US president said the Aug. 1 deadline was 'not 100% firm' and signalled he might tweak the rates Reserve Bank of Australia shocked markets this week by keeping interest rates on hold at 3.85%, despite widespread expectations for a third cut in five months. Central bankers in Israel, Romania, New Zealand, Peru, Egypt, Serbia and Kazakhstan also kept interest rates unchanged. Uruguay surprised with a quarter-point rate cut, while Malaysia lowered borrowing costs for the first time since threatened to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil over its domestic political affairs, the most extreme case yet of the US president weaponising trade policy to make unrelated demands. Trump's latest threat, against a nation that sells fewer goods to the US than it buys, risks reinforcing concerns that formal trade agreements may offer limited protection against future tariff annual inflation ticked up further above target, a signal of the long road ahead before the central bank can begin easing sky-high interest buyers of copper will pay a high price if President Donald Trump pushes ahead with a 50% tariff on refined metal as opposed to products such as wiring, according to producers and analysts. As Trump prepares to slap a 50% levy on imported copper as of Aug. 1, the global supply chain is sweating on details of the manufacturers secured the business tax provisions they'd hoped for in Trump's budget megabill, but the president's erratic trade policy risks tempering any pronounced pickup in capital investment. Still, some expect any notable upturn in capital expenditures to take longer to evolve because of the administration's frenetic tariff announcements as well as the levies assortment of cautionary signals emerged in the latest US jobs report, including weak and concentrated hiring in the private sector as well as a dip in hours worked that underscore a fragile job market. Private payrolls rose 74,000 last month, about half as much as in May. The health care and social assistance industry accounted for nearly 80% of all private sector job growth in June. Excluding that advance, companies added roughly 15,000 jobs — the least in eight Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said there'd have to be a major downward shift in inflation to justify another reduction in borrowing costs, dismissing concern that the economy is UK economy shrank for a second straight month as companies and consumers struggled to bounce back from the blow dealt by US tariffs and a raft of tax increases. Gross domestic product declined 0.1% in May after contracting 0.3% the previous have ramped up bookings at German natural gas storage sites, marking a sharp turnaround from earlier this year when the country exited winter with stockpiles at a three-year low and an unusual market structure made refills leading up to the Australian central bank interest rate decision Tuesday, policymakers sat silent as hot wars in the Middle East and trade wars from the US shook global confidence. That turmoil, along with local data skewed largely to the downside, boosted expectations for a rate cut. So when the bank stunned with a decision to keep rates unchanged, it caught just about everyone automakers slashed the price of products exported to the US at a record pace, in a sign that companies are sacrificing profits to remain competitive as Trump's tariffs hit cars. Last month the export price index for vehicles shipped to North America plunged 19.4% from a year earlier on a contract currency basis, the biggest drop in records going back to 2016.
