US president’s international trade war spooks investors, with drops in US share prices after European losses

The Supreme Court’s nixing of US President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs is throwing fresh confusion over the raft of trade deals negotiated by global partners as the inescapable reality of ongoing levies remains a threat.

The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down large parts of President Trump's tariff policies Friday.

The Global Trade Observatory Annual Outlook Report 2026 is a data and insights-led platform designed to equip businesses, governments, and policy makers with timely, actionable intelligence on the forces reshaping trade across the Americas and beyond.

Amid the headlines and noise of the latest tariffs from Washington and the growing fears about the state of global trade, a quiet movement to support free and open commerce is taking place in world capitals from Auckland to Abu Dhabi, and from Singapore to ...

Jamieson Greer, a low-key lawyer from a working-class background, is rewriting the rules of the global economy at the president’s behest.

GENEVA (Reuters) -The share of global trade done on WTO terms has fallen to 72% and could fall further, amid the biggest disruption to the international trading system in the past 80 years, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization said on Tuesday.

This year has rolled out in explosive fashion for the stock market, with tariff wars, high inflation and technology realignment defining market trends and trading experiences. Gone are the manual stockbroking days made famous by Michael Douglas in Wall ...

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This article originally appeared in the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs’ CIDOB International Yearbook 2026 and was translated to Spanish and Catalan. It is reprinted with permission. Just weeks into his second term as president, Donald J.

A European Union assessment found that President Donald Trump’s new tariff policy will increase levies on some of the bloc’s exports, including cheese and some agricultural products, above the level permitted in their trade agreement.