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Wall Street slides as Trump’s tariff threats triggers market uncertainty

Business News - May 24, 2025 - 9:38am
U.S. stocks fell on Friday, notching a weekly loss, after President Donald Trump recommended 50% tariffs on European goods, reopening a new front in global trade tensions and unleashing a fresh wave of market uncertainty. All three main Wall Street indexes pared early losses but each still ended lower and shed more than 2% for the week. Technology, communication services and consumer discretionary stocks were the biggest losers of the S&P 500's 11 subsectors. Utilities, consumer staples and energy stocks gained. Apple touched a two-week low and finished down 3% after Trump warned the iPhone-maker it could face potential 25% tariffs on phones sold to U.S. customers but not manufactured in the country. Treasury yields eased from multi-month highs, falling 4.4 basis points to 4.509% for the benchmark U.S. 10-year note. "If I were to put a headline on today's story, it would be 'Here We Go Again!'" said James St. Aubin, chief investment officer at Ocean Park Asset Management in Santa Monica, California. "This is Trump turning on the temperature on the tariff conversation with the EU and Apple. The markets were hoping that the worst was behind us when it comes to the tariff rhetoric. But in reality, there's still some smoldering embers when it comes to the tariff talk," St. Aubin added. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 256.02 points, or 0.61%, to 41,603.07, the S&P 500 lost 39.19 points, or 0.67%, to 5,802.82 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 188.53 points, or 1.00%, to 18,737.21. For the week, the Dow lost 2.47%, the S&P 500 fell 2.61%, and the Nasdaq shed 2.48%. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Trump did not believe the EU's trade offers were of sufficient quality. He also said he hoped the threat of fresh tariffs would "light a fire under the EU" in negotiations. Most megacap and growth stocks fell, including Amazon , Nvidia and Meta Platforms - which all lost more than 1%. Tesla ended down 0.5%. The CBOE Volatility Index, Wall Street's "fear gauge," hit a more than two-week high and finished up 10%. Semiconductor stocks dropped 1.5%. Deckers Outdoor slumped nearly 20% after the maker of UGG boots forecast first-quarter net sales below estimates and said it would not provide annual targets due to tariff-led macroeconomic uncertainty. Sportswear maker Nike dropped 2.1%. Volume on U.S. exchanges was 17.67 billion shares, compared with the 17.73 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
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Dollar, global stocks slip as Trump threatens tariffs on Europe and Apple

Business News - May 24, 2025 - 9:35am
Major stock indexes and the dollar eased on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed his latest trade threats, recommending 50% tariffs on European Union imports from June 1 and considering a 25% tariff on any Apple iPhones made outside the U.S. Shares of Apple ended 3% lower, while the three major U.S. stock indexes finished weaker but off session lows. European shares also ended lower. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, hit a three-week trough. For the week, the dollar was down 1.9%, on track for its biggest weekly percentage decline since early April. The dollar sank 1% versus the Japanese yen, while the euro rose 0.8% against the dollar. Government bonds in the United States and Europe climbed on safe-haven buying after sustaining heavy pressure this week from rising concerns about Trump's tax cuts and the White House's ballooning debt pile. Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network: "The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with." This was the latest event in a jittery week for global markets after Moody's downgraded the U.S. credit rating late last Friday and the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved Trump's sweeping tax cuts on Thursday. The new tax-cut bill is expected to add almost $4 trillion to the U.S. federal government's $36 trillion debt pile. "Tariffs are back at the forefront," said Oliver Pursche, senior vice president and advisor for Wealthspire Advisors in Westport, Connecticut. "I think the 25% tariffs on iPhones and Apple was a little bit of a surprise. It seemed like there was going to be an exemption there, and the market is reacting more to that than the EU news, and is interpreting that as a hardening of the stance by President Trump and the administration as opposed to seeking a negotiating path." The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 256.02 points, or 0.61%, to 41,603.07. The S&P 500 dropped 39.19 points, or 0.67%, to 5,802.82 and the Nasdaq Composite slipped 188.53 points, or 1.00%, to 18,737.21. All three major U.S. stock indexes had fallen more than 1% early in the day. For the week, the Dow lost 2.47%, the S&P 500 fell 2.61%, and the Nasdaq shed 2.48%. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe fell 2.86 points, or 0.33%, to 868.15. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.93%. The White House paused most of the punishing tariffs Trump announced in early April against nearly every country. He left in place a 10% baseline tax on most imports, and later reduced his massive 145% tax on Chinese goods to 30%. "Markets go through a cycle with tariffs - freak out and sell when they are announced ..., freak out and buy (when) they are paused," said Jamie Cox, managing partner at Harris Financial Group in Richmond, Virginia. The 30-year U.S. bond yield, which on Thursday hit the highest since October 2023, fell in response to fresh tariff fears. The yield was down 2.2 basis points at 5.042%. The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes fell 3.6 basis points to 4.517%. Thirty-year bonds have taken the brunt of the price selloff and posted the largest weekly increase in yields since April 7. Yields move the opposite direction to prices. Gold, which has surged in recent months as economic anxiety has risen, was higher. Spot gold rose 2.14% to $3,364.74 an ounce. Oil prices gained as U.S. buyers covered positions ahead of the three-day Memorial Day weekend. Brent crude futures settled at $64.78 a barrel, up 34 cents, or 0.54%. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures finished at $61.53, up 33 cents, or 0.54%.
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Prashant Kishor: नीतीश के मंत्री पर खूब बरसे प्रशांत किशोर, बोले- नवंबर में बिहार का निजाम बदल जाएगा

Dainik Jagran - May 24, 2025 - 9:19am

डिजिटल डेस्क, पटना। बिहार में इसी साल विधानसभा चुनाव होने हैं। जनसुराज पार्टी के सूत्रधार प्रशांत किशोर भी चुनाव को लेकर पूरा जोर लगा रहे हैं। 

बिहार में संपूर्ण क्रांति और व्यवस्था परिवर्तन के उद्देश्य से शुरू की गई ''बिहार बदलाव यात्रा'' के तहत जन सुराज के सूत्रधार प्रशांत किशोर शुक्रवार को सिवान पहुंचे।  

यहां उन्होंने बिहार के स्वास्थ्य मंत्री मंगल पांडेय पर जमकर निशाना साधा। प्रशांत किशोर ने कहा कि मंगल पांडेय ने स्वास्थ्य मंत्री रहते हुए कोई काम नहीं किया है। इस बार उनकी पार्टी (भाजपा) भी उनको साइड करेगी। 

प्रशांत किशोर ने कहा कि आज मैं एक बड़ा खुलासा कर रहा हूं। मंगल पांडेय की हालत इस वक्त काफी खराब है। उनपर पार्टी के शीर्ष नेतृत्व का दबाव है। उन्हें इस बार चुनाव लड़ने को कहा जा रहा है। 

उन्होंने कहा कि आज तक मंगल पांडेय ने चुनाव नहीं लड़ा है। ये लोग रिकमेंडेशन वाले लीडर हैं। इसके साथ, प्रशांत किशोर ने यह भी कहा कि इस बार बिहार में बदलाव तय है। बिहार में चुनाव के बाद निजाम बदल जाएगा। लिखकर ले लीजिए प्रदेश में नया मुख्यमंत्री बनेगा। 

पीके ने बिहार की बेहतरी के लिए दुआ मांगी

प्रशांत किशोर ने सिवान में हसनपुरा प्रखंड स्थित मजार पर चादरपोशी कर बिहार की बेहतरी के लिए दुआ मांगी। दारौंदा बाजार में समर्थकों ने प्रशांत किशोर को लड्डुओं से तौला।

इस दौरान प्रशांत किशोर ने कहा कि बिहार में अधिकारी और नेता राशन कार्ड बनाने से लेकर जमीन की रसीद कटाने तक के लिए रिश्वत ले रहे हैं, जिससे आम लोग परेशान हैं।

उन्होंने सिवान की जनता से अपील की कि उन्हें और उनके बच्चों को लूटने वाले नेताओं से दूर रहें और प्रदेश में जनता का राज स्थापित करने में अपनी भूमिका निभाएं।

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