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Good morning. Things happen in the US markets before 4 at night yesterday, but who knows what. The notice of the White House Tariff brings enough blow to erase the short memory of investors. Email us to the minds of the new world: robert.arstrong@ft.com and Aiden.reiter@ft.com.

Now battle it

Historians may one day try to rebuild how the Trump administration comes to Tarff rates It was announced yesterday. At that time, the process becomes an academic interest. This morning no interest. The reason is that the US struck an almost gracious aggressive posture toward its trading partners, leaving countries – and investors how long it will take refrigerator.

earnings WRITES Earlier in the week that Wall Street approval for “liberation day” is the average US tariff rate increase in 10-20 percent, with mostly analysts under the middle. the Office has partnered Combination of a minimum rate of 10 percent and higher rate in specific countries will push the number at the upper end of that order and perhaps higher. Neil Shearing in the capital economy can recreate a 19 percent average rate; Omair Sharif of inflation insights runs in numbers and reaches an estimate of 25-30 percent. This is the Trump White House attitude that such a resultant notice leaves the room for disagreement about facts.

The tariff rate suggested by China and Asian countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia are higher. China confronts total tariffs above 50 percent – they can go even height – And administration is also clearly wanting to overthrow any chains of supply that can serve as an intermediary in China or alternative.

The announcement, it should be emphasized, there is an important part of the pro-trade. As expected and expected, Canada and Mexico did not hit the extra tariffs, it was left with the USMCA Trade) This means that the effective tariff rate was at least 25 percent of the cars from the rest of the world.

This aspect of Dovish is above ambiguity. The places where sectoral tariffs are expected – pharmaceutics, copper, wooden wood – specifically dismissed from National Rates. But it really is a delay than a change. More importantly, the scope for negotiation is not clear. Asked about this PASTThe Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says like someone who hasn’t said: “President Trump is there to see what he wants to do.

What to bring now for markets? As we write, things look bad. NASDAQ’s Futures 100 are 4 percent, and S & P 500 futures at about 3 percent. Bitcoin, the asset with no reason, fell. Gold, prompting fear, rose. In a classic flight safety, the produce falls in stores in all maturity, which weaken the dollar.

But nothing happens in today’s markets – up, up, or sideways – we’ll be very surprised. The news now takes time to digest. But here are some first-minded implications:

• Growth: Lower. It’s a big new tax, and, all the same, tax dragging in growth. “The negative impact of GDP is more than expected 0.5-1 percent because consumer spending and additional excavation of stressings.

• The inflation: higher, at least in short term. Samuel Tarts in Pantheon Macroeconomics was found to be, if all these tariffs go to Canadian tariffs and Mexican rise to 25 per cent of the first term of the Trump. You are more aggressive in countries and sex to prompt the application method “.

• The Federal Funds Rate: Soon to say. Slow growth and increase in prices complex both sides of the Federal Reserve’s command. It’s signflation signs. Pigs have already predicted something in this effect. But the announcement of yesterday was more motivated than the expected of the policy committee, Claudia Sahm said new century counselors. After the notice, the futures market that flee estimates for the number of cutting fed cuts this year. Sahm thinks it’s a mistake. After the years of inflation, “the bias of the Fed was to drink inflation. They drag their feet to cut,” he said.

• Stocks: Bearish. See comments about growing.

• TREASURIES: TURN. “It’s a big environment, where investors have no advantage (info). In that kind of environment, the only thing that I feel is relatively confident is the market in the rate … This news brings the expected growth,” supporting the exposures of growth, “supporting treasuries.

• Inflation-Index Treasuries: Enable. “Most of me hate them,” Edward Al-Hassaainy said in Columbia Threatneedle, ”

Trump built a pattern in bold statements followed by Dasty retreats, and that may happen again this time. But yesterday felt different, because of the hype of the run-up and the greater commitments made in the day. There are some sudden turns in the months in the future. But no return.

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