UK steel industry fears ‘devastating blow’ from Trump tariffs; FTSE 100 hits record high as markets shrug off trade war fears – as it happened
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European stock markets have opened fairly calmly, despite the latest tariff threat lobbed by Donald Trump from Air Force One yesterday.
In London, the FTSE 100 share index has risen by 0.2% or 16 points to 8716 points.
There could be a problem - you’ve been reading about that, with Treasuries and that could be an interesting problem.”
“It could be that a lot of those things don’t count. In other words, that some of that stuff that we’re finding is very fraudulent, therefore maybe we have less debt than we thought.” Continue reading...
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