After three days of global market turmoil not seen since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, stocks regained a measure of calm on Tuesday despite little let up in the escalating trade tensions caused by President Trump’s tariffs.
Before markets opened in China, the government unleashed a series of measures to stabilize stocks. In turn, share prices in Hong Kong, a day after plunging 13.2 percent, and in mainland China jumped about 1.5 percent.
Stocks in Japan gained 6 percent, recouping a portion of the previous days losses. The rise in sentiment followed comments made on Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said he would soon begin discussions with the Japanese government regarding tariffs.
The Stoxx Europe 600 gained about 1 percent in early trading, with nearly every major market in the region in the green. The pan-European benchmark remains about 15 percent lower than its peak in early March.
Stéphane Boujnah,89vip slots the chief executive of Euronext, which runs several stock exchanges across Europe, said in an interview on French radio that the disruption caused by tariffs had made the U.S. markets “unrecognizable” to investors, who were shifting some of their money from the United States to Europe.
Markets around the world were unmoored last week by Mr. Trump’s announcement of broad new tariffs — a base tax of 10 percent on American imports, plus significantly higher rates on dozens of other countries. Countries have responded with tariffs of their own on U.S. goods, or with threats of retaliation. China retaliated forcefully on Friday, matching a new 34 percent tariff with one of its own on many American imports.
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