Jonathan Jones

1 week ago | trustnet.com | Jonathan Jones

Last week US stocks entered into a brief technical bear market after US president Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs sent markets spiralling. With a pause later announced, markets have recovered somewhat but investors looking for good news may also need to hold their enthusiasm, as we are not out of the woods.

2 weeks ago | trustnet.com | Jonathan Jones

Donald Trump’s dramatic about-face on tariffs last night has had an enormous impact on markets, US indices ending their latest session significantly higher, while Asian and European markets have rallied in early trading this morning. The US president has left the 10% universal baseline tariff in place for all but China, where the rate has increased to 125% after the Chinese government implemented its own 84% reciprocal tariffs earlier this week.

2 weeks ago | trustnet.com | Jonathan Jones

A full-blown trade war, dot-com bubble 2.0, deregulation fever and a shock trade agreement are four possible scenarios for investors to consider as they invest their way through the rest of 2025, according to Investec analysts Elliott Hardy, Alan Brierley and Ben Newell. They looked at the impact each scenario would have on four defensively positioned investment trusts they recommend: BH Macro, Capital Gearing, Personal Assets and Ruffer.

2 weeks ago | trustnet.com | Jonathan Jones

Markets have paused for breath this morning after days of indiscriminate sell-offs across the world. Most Asian markets nudged higher overnight and in Japan, the Nikkei 225 surged back 6% as the country was given priority negotiation rights with the US. In early trading, the UK’s FTSE 100 and German DAX both were up between 1.6% and 1.9%, while other European markets were trading in a similar band at the time of writing.

2 weeks ago | trustnet.com | Jonathan Jones

Donald Trump has called on the US Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in a post on social media platform X today. It comes after global markets continued to tank on the back of his punishing ‘Liberation Day’, which occurred last week. The US president announced widespread tariffs on a host of countries on 2 April, with Europe hit with a 20% tariff, while some Asian countries were slapped with almost 50% charges.