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Trump news at a glance: Tariffs send US markets tumbling to worst day since Covid crash

Wall Street trader reacts as Trump tariffs send global markets tumbling.
Wall Street trader reacts as Trump tariffs send global markets tumbling. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP

Global financial markets were roiled by Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcement – with trillions of dollars knocked off the value of the world’s biggest companies and heightened fears of a US recession.

In the US, the main indices saw their worst one-day falls in five years as the president claimed that “the markets are going to boom” in response to his sweeping tariffs.

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