With markets and tariffs, the only certainty is uncertainty

We know what the president said yesterday. But we don't know what he will say tomorrow. The blows he has inflicted on financial markets and international trade with this uncertainty are blows that will make us all poorer.

With markets and tariffs, the only certainty is uncertainty

The consequences of a move like Trump’s are fiendishly hard to predict

Tengku Zafrul: Only uncertainty on Trump’s tariffs, questions impact on Asean

PETALING JAYA: There is no certainty about Trump's tariffs, only uncertainty, laments Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz. Read full story

Trump Blinks, Provides Market with Much-Needed Certainty (That He Is Clueless) - WhoWhatWhy

Businesses and investors crave certainty. And that’s precisely what they got on Wednesday. Unfortunately for them, and Americans in general, the only certainty that can be gleaned from the past week is that the erratic US president is completely clueless and will create chaos in the weeks and months ahead. In the span of seven days, Donald Trump launched an utterly unnecessary global trade war, watched investors lose trillions of dollars, vowed …

Companies from different sectors assume that there are trade agreements paralyzed by uncertainty, and wine and olive producers claim not to be a currency of exchange to lower tariffs on industryPlastics, almonds, makeup: these are the U.S. products to which the EU imposes tariffs The situation opened by the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump's government has resulted in a period of many doubts and uncertainty for the sectors and companies that expo…

Tariff Uncertainty Is Freezing M&A and Dealmaking. It May Not Thaw for a While

Trump may have paused ‘reciprocal’ tariffs on most countries for now, but continued uncertainty has been freezing mergers and acquisitions.