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Wall Street’s response to tariff shock: client calls and bonus worries

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Isla Binnie, Ross Kerber and Dhara Ranasinghe (Reuters) – With markets crashing after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his latest tariffs, Citigroup’s banking head Viswas Raghavan called a global meeting of senior bankers on Monday and told them to get on the phone with their clients. Raghavan’s message was simple, according to …

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Apple airlifts 600 tons of iPhones from India ‘to beat’ Trump tariffs, sources say

By Aditya Kalra, Abhijith Ganapavaram and Munsif Vengattil NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India, after it stepped up production there in an effort to beat President Donald Trump’s tariffs, sources told Reuters. The …

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Barry Callebaut to scale up US production to cope with ‘disruptive environment’

By Paolo Laudani and Isabel Demetz (Reuters) – Barry Callebaut is planning to increase its U.S.-based production to fend off effects of the “disruptive environment” in North America and stay close to its customers, the Swiss chocolate maker’s chief executive said on Thursday. “We have one … facility that we will scale out to about …

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Trump signs executive order seeking to revitalize US shipbuilding

By Andrea Shalal, Jonathan Saul, Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at reviving U.S. shipbuilding and reducing China’s grip on the global shipping industry, vowing to boost funding for the effort in coming years. Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers for years have warned about China’s growing …

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Has Trump cancelled Christmas? China’s decorations makers report no US orders

By Andrew Silver and Casey Hall SHAOXING, China (Reuters) -Chinese producers of plastic Christmas trees and other festive decorations say orders from U.S. clients, which are crucial for their business, should have started to come in by now. But because of surging import tariffs, they haven’t. U.S. President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on Chinese …

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Analysis-In Saudi debut, Tesla faces desert heat, few chargers, but no Musk protests 

By Pesha Magid and Manya Saini RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) – Tesla starts selling cars in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, a country where on a 900-kilometre (559 mile) stretch of its main east-west highway linking the capital Riyadh and the holy city of Mecca there isn’t a single charging station. Electric vehicle sales in the kingdom totalled …

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Investor Bill Ackman says China is isolated after Trump tariff reversal move

(Reuters) – Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said on Thursday China was now isolated and other U.S. trading partners were lining up to make deals following President Donald Trump’s stunning reversal of his tariff decision. Trump said on Wednesday said he would temporarily lower the hefty duties he had just imposed on dozens of countries while …

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Analysis-Tariffs caused US Treasury market dislocations, raising longer term concerns

By Davide Barbuscia and Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – The searing selloff in Treasuries this week in response to tariffs caused dislocations in the world’s biggest bond market, as hedge funds unwound some debt-fuelled bets and investors raised concerns about lasting damage to U.S. markets. While the market participants, who include brokers, traders and …

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Alphabet reaffirms $75 billion spending plan in 2025 despite tariff turmoil

By Kenrick Cai Las Vegas (Reuters) -Alphabet said on Wednesday it was still committed to spending some $75 billion this year to build out data center capacity despite turmoil over U.S. tariffs and sought to reassure investors that its AI plans were yielding good returns. Investors are fretting about the massive capital costs of AI …

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