Several economists have said the rolling out of the tariffs is a risky move that threatens to plunge the economy into a downturn and upend decades-old alliances.
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The worry is that the whipsaw moves by the Trump Administration will either hurt the US economy directly or create enough uncertainty to drive US companies and consumers into an economy-freezing paralysis. The S&P 500 was down 9.1 per cent from its all-time high set on February 19.
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The US federal government reduced its payrolls by 10,000 in a potential harbinger of the alarm being sounded by the stock market, consumer confidence and other measures of where the economy is headed. Since January, the economic policy uncertainty index has spiked 41 per cent to a level, 334.5, that in the past signalled a recession.
President Donald Trump delays tariffs on Mexican, Canadian goods
A recently released study says more than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050
