Trump, trade and the markets
The Story of Money
Manuela Saragosa
4.4 • 400 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
After a week that began with a tense G7 summit and ended with the US imposing more tariffs on Chinese goods, many expected to see a big slide in financial markets. But stocks remained flat last week. Why aren't investors bracing for rockier times? With the FT's senior investment commentator John Authers.
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| 0:27.7 | AI and take action today. Welcome to Behind the Money with the Financial Times. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Amy Keene. |
| 0:38.0 | This week on the podcast, we're looking at why U.S. stock market |
| 0:42.0 | seemed to be tuning out the threat of a looming |
| 0:44.8 | trade war. |
| 0:47.7 | The old saying goes that markets hate uncertainty and after a week with a public breakdown of the G7 countries and the US imposing |
| 0:55.3 | 50 billion dollars worth of tariffs on Chinese goods, a lot of people expected to see |
| 1:00.4 | a big slide in financial markets. Instead it was as flat and boring a week as |
| 1:06.5 | you could possibly imagine for the stock market. So why aren't investors bracing for tougher |
| 1:11.8 | times ahead? What a pleasure it is to welcome President Trump to Charlevoix. |
| 1:27.0 | A little more than a week ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed Donald Trump |
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