A load ship is outside the port of Elizabeth Marine Terminal seen from Bayonne, New Jersey, USA, April 9, 2025.
Shannon Stapleton | Reuters
Commercial barriers can come in many ways. Tariffs are just one. The onerous license requirements, export restrictions and shipping fines are other obstacles.
Nvidia said Tuesday that he will take a charge of $ 5.5 billion related to Chip exports to China because or new license rules of the United States government. Beijing has retaliates to Trump’s tariffs through the implementation of export restrictions on rare, integral elements for many electronic and defense technologies, to the United States. The Donald Trump administration has been floating the idea of imposing taxes on Chinese -manufacturing container ships that call US ports.
Given those developments, the World Trade Organization warned Wednesday that the prospects for global trade have “deteriorated sharply”, and predicted a 0.2% decrease in 2025. It is not Meremehardycady that cancels the ships of China.
Commerce, in another context, also occurs in the stock market, which has seen pure volatility from the avalanche of rates of the president of the United States, Donald Trump. US actions fell on Wednesday as the fears of the commercial war keep nerve investors.
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Markets shaken by renewed trade jitters
US actions collapsed on Wednesday. He S&P 500 Lost 2.24% and Dow Jones industrial 1.73%fell. He Nasdaq compound SANK 3.07%, overwhelmed by strong decreases in chip stocks amid reports of new US license requirements. Nvidia Exports. Paneuropeo Stoxx 600 The index fell 0.19%. Actions or ASML He fell 5.2% after the Dutch company said Wednesday that it fell short or the net expectations of the first quarter, which suggests a deceleration in the demand for its critical chips manufacturing machines.
Tension in a dual mandate
The president of the United States Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said Conern Conern on Wednesday the Central Bank “can find us on the challenging stage in which our double goal goals are in tension.” The FED aims to guarantee stable prices and full employment. Economists, including those of the Fed, see the threats to both objectives of Trump’s tariffs, which “probably move us more from our goals,” Powell said in a question and answers session.
WTO warns about the disorganization of world trade
“The perspective for global trade has been determined sharply due to an increase in the uncertainty of tariffs and commercial policy,” warned the World Trade Organization in its last “global commercial and statistical commercial perspective,” reports Wednesday. Based on rates currently in force, and including a 90 -day suspension of “reciprocal tariffs”, the world merchandise commerce volume is now expected to decrease by 0.2% in 2025.
China’s cancellation travel warehouses
American imports are being notified of an increase in navigations canceled by China’s cargo ships: a total of 80 blank or canceled, China’s navigations have been registered by the HLS Group loading company. The impact of decreased load containers to North America will be significant for many links in the economy and supply chain, including port and logistics companies that move freight.
Openai Eyes Windsurf vibration coding tool
In conversations to pay around $ 3 billion to acquire Windsurf, an artificial intelligence tool for coding aid, CNBC has confirmed is in conversations to pay around $ 3 billion to acquire. If an agreement is made with Windsurf, it would be, with much, the greatest acquisition of OpenI. Windsurf is among the tools, together with the cursor and the replication request, to which developers have come in recent months to “Vibe Code”, a term that refers to the models of rapidly assemble code for a new software.
[PRO] Still sure in the dollar: Piper Sandler
The dollar index, which measures the green back against a basket of important currencies, fell last week to its lowest point since April 2022 amid the successful uncertainty of Trump’s tariffs. More alarming, the US dollar is generally seen as a safe asset in volatility times, so its fabric has raised the Conerns. Piper Sandler, however, still trusts the currency, here is why.
And finally …
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, meets with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele (not in the photo) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA UU., April 14, 2025.
Kevin Lamarque | Reuters
Wall Street commercial desks are pretending about the volatility of Trump’s global agitation
Wall Street Banks has just registered its greatest tour of the negotiation of shares, since Trump’s first months led to disorders in asset assets classes, since institutional investors around the world are positioned for a new regime.
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, each of the income of record capital trade with notches in the first quarter, with the first three generating approximately $ 4 billion in revenues each.
The second time in Trump’s position was supposed to be good for Wall Street merchants, investment bankers who handle acquisitions of billions of dollars and high -profile OPI listings. On the other hand, the activity of the agreement has remained warm, and the biggest beneficiaries so far have their leg sitting on the bank’s commercial floors.