Don't Expect The Trade War To End Soon

Yeap Jun Rong, Market Strategist, IG International

14-Apr-25 07:00

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Over the weekend, US announced exemptions to tariffs for selected electronic products albeit warning that it is just temporary. Yeap Jun Rong, Market Strategist at IG International tells us what impact the tariff storm has on equity markets and why the US dollar has been so weak of late.

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Produced by: Tun Hizami Hashim

Presented by: Aisalli Ayub, Philip See, Wong Shou Ning

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Categories: markets, controversies, international, economy, technology

Tags: trade war, trump, equity markets, us dollar, us,

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