Europe and Asia markets plunge as Trump says ‘you have to take medicine’
US president tells reporters foreign governments will have to pay ‘a lot of money’ to lift levies
Stock markets in Asia and Europe have fallen sharply on Monday after Donald Trump said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterised as “medicine”.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late on Sunday, the US president indicated he was not concerned about market losses that have already wiped out nearly $6tn in value from US stocks. “I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said. Continue reading...
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