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Just toast mate, beans are far to expensive atm.

US markets have resumed their falls after yesterday’s rally.

The Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes are down over 4% and the Nasdaq has been as much as 5% lower.

Warner Bros Discovery has seen a fall of 14% and Amazon and Apple are both down 7%.

Gold – seen as a safe haven asset – is up 3%, while riskier assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are down 5% and 10% respectively.

''China tariffs stand at 145%, White House confirms.

US markets slide again as tariff optimism fades''.

Well, today was a Flop.

Nvidia price going back to what it was yesterday.

Un bloody real, how can the administration not know about that extra 20%.

Ran by monkeys I tells yer.

China tariffs stand at 145%, White House confirms

published at 16:56

The tariffs imposed on Chinese goods coming into the US is at 145%, the White House has clarified.

On Wednesday, Trump said he was hiking the levy to 125%.

However, the administration has just confirmed that figure did not include a pre-existing tariff of 20%, which is being added on top - bringing the total to 145%, higher than we thought previously.

It finished on 693.61.

Barely. 😂

Here's a crab joke.... but yer have to sing the punchline.

Why do Crabs walk sideways on the beach...

Sing!!!

Oohh I do like to be beside the Seaside, Oohh I do like to be beside the Sea.

Omg, I hate to say this, but so did I... but I was also using my hands snapping them opening and closing.

We are Professionals here, Ok.

Yer have to read it like John Wayne tho.

O K an Howdy to you Albertz. (a wee true grit joke as well)

''There's no hard work if you don't do anything and just hold...''.

Nope, I day trade and hold x3 which loses on drops.

Is becoming hard work as of late, is it not lol.

Can't believe it's dropped from 785 to now under 7, like WtF!.

''Lost thousands? Why?

As all of those books say, you do nothing. Go.away, come back or buy more. If you lost money, its because you panicked or sold or both''.

You forgot one more option... margin called.. on day trading.

Yup, all about shorting and making a shed load. corrupt af.

Where I lost fubing thousands. Baskits the lot of them.

China-US trade relationship - what do the numbers say?

published at 17:52

The trade in goods between the two economic powers added up to around $585bn (£429bn) last year.

Though the US imported far more from China ($440bn) than China imported from America ($145bn).

That left the US running a trade deficit with China - the difference between what it imports and exports - of $295bn in 2024. That's a considerable trade deficit, equivalent to around 1% of the US economy.

But it's less than the $1tn figure that Trump has repeatedly claimed this week.

Interesting.

The London stock market has closed its trading for the day.

The FTSE 100 index finished at 2.92% down at 7,679.48, its lowest since........... March 2024.

In the aftermath of Trump imposing higher tariffs on the so-called "worst offending" countries, global and economic reaction continues to move at pace.

The EU has voted in favour of imposing new tariffs on the United States - affecting €20.9bn (£18bn) worth of goods - to be implemented in three steps throughout the year starting from 15 April.

China is refusing to back down after being hit with a 104% tariff from Trump last night, responding with a 84% tariff rate on US goods.

China has already filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization saying the US is violating international trade laws.

Wall Street opened earlier with mixed trading - with the S&P 500 and Down Jones down 0.19% and 0.5% respectively, but Nasdaq up 0.7%.

Asia's markets opened between 3% to 1% lower, and continued on a downward slide, while European markets opened down by 2.1-2.5%.

Dam fordm, all I need now is a fork and a Cucumber and I'm out of here.

''At least he didn’t call you a pontificating nobody 😂''.

If fordm called me that, I would have to kill myself.

Don't do it fordm, please!.