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Why Copper Prices Are Falling After Trump’s 50% Tariff Order  Barron’s Trump slaps universal 50% tariff on copper imports; metal’s price plunges  CNBC How Trump’s Copper Tariffs Surprise Shook the Market  Bloomberg.com Trump issues blitz of tariff announcements on copper, Brazil, South Korea, small-value imports  Reuters ADJUSTING IMPORTS OF COPPER INTO THE UNITED STATES  The White House (.gov) Source link

Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Brazil’s judiciary  The Economist U.S. stiffens sanctions against judge at center of U.S.-Brazil feud  The Washington Post Trump accused of ‘attack on Brazilian democracy’ after sanctioning Bolsonaro trial judge  The Guardian Sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes for Serious Human Rights Abuse  U.S. Department of State (.gov) US imposes sanctions on Brazilian high court judge  Reuters Source link

Oil tanker trucks sit outside an oil refinery operated by Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. in Mumbai, India. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images NEW DELHI — President Trump has announced new tariffs on India, but warned India there is more to come as punishment for buying fuel and weapons from Russia. The …

Trump’s Fight With the Fed Won’t End With Rate Cuts  The New York Times Fed keeps interest rates unchanged for fifth-straight time  CNN 2 Fed officials break ranks as Trump wages war on Powell  Politico Federal Reserve holds key interest rate steady for fifth straight meeting despite Trump’s pressure  Fox Business The Fed holds interest rates steady. And, Texas releases bid for new redistricting …

President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime heads to court Thursday in a fight for its survival. Starting at 10 a.m. ET, a panel of 11 judges in New York will hear about 45 minutes of arguments each from the Trump administration and two small businesses that say many of his import duties are illegal. Trump’s sweeping tariffs are set to …

President Donald Trump has long been a practitioner of distraction tactics during unflattering news cycles. But with the president looking to move on from the spiraling Jeffrey Epstein crisis, his flood-the-zone approach with endless posts has taken the familiar deflection playbook to a new extreme. Trump has posted hundreds of times in recent weeks as the disgraced financier’s case has …

Facebook Tweet Email Link For months President Donald Trump has been slapping higher tariffs on practically every country’s exports to the United States, citing emergency economic powers. Now, just as he’s about to enact a new round of tariffs, a federal appeals court could render them void. Oral arguments are scheduled Thursday for an appeal in a case alleging Trump …

Trump’s newborn savings accounts a ‘back door for privatizing Social Security,’ Bessent says  The Washington Post Treasury secretary calls new Trump accounts ‘a backdoor’ way to privatize Social Security  CNN Trump accounts are a ‘backdoor for privatizing Social Security,’ Treasury secretary says  USA Today ‘Trump accounts’ for newborns could grow to $1.9M, Treasury says  Fox Business Bessent hails new ‘Trump accounts’ as ‘backdoor for …

Ben Chu, Daniel Wainwright & Phil Leake BBC Verify Getty Images Donald Trump has delivered a profound shock to the global trading system since returning to the White House. The US president announced on 2 April, so-called Liberation Day, a slew of swingeing so-called “reciprocal” tariffs, or import taxes, hitting dozens of countries around the world. Many of these have …

On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump called for Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to eliminate what Trump called the “‘Blue Slip’ SCAM,” a Senate tradition that gives home-state senators a veto power over some presidential nominees who wield power entirely within the senator’s state. Trump posted about his opposition to blue slips on Truth Social, his personal communications platform. …