US share market sell-off: Dow drops 1,042 points as Wall Street gets spooked by spectre of “Trump recession”

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.

Is US headed for “Trump recession”? Economic worries mount over tariff wars, workforce cuts, spending freeze

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.

USA: President Donald Trump confident Putin wants peace despite ‘bombing the hell out of Ukraine’

President Donald Trump says he is confident that his Russian counterpart Putin wants peace despite ‘bombing the hell out of Ukraine’

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