Economy & Business North America

The WSJ Dollar Index was down 0.3% to 99.13 — down for two consecutive trading days.

U.S. stocks staged a historic rally after President Trump announced a 90-day pause on some tariffs and signaled a willingness to negotiate on trade.

The simultaneous selloff in stocks, bonds and the dollar was the clearest sign of serious distress yet.

Hopes of a long hoped-for revival of initial public offerings in the beleaguered market now look to have been put on ice.

Trump’s U-turn sent Wall Street stocks surging, with the Dow Jones up 6.8%, the S&P 500 rising 9% and tech-focused Nasdaq climbing 11.5%.

Business leaders fear Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s £25bn National Insurance raid could lead to tens of thousands of job losses this year.

Trump said overnight that the US would soon introduce a ‘major tariff’ on pharmaceuticals to force firms to relocate medicine production to America.

Everyone in the financial world has a theory about Trump’s mayhem. At lunch with a senior insurance executive, I was assured there was method in the madness.

The Dutch auto conglomerate will clarify that its cars are assembled, not “built,” in U.S. factories.

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