All right, 15% tariffs on our biggest trading partner. Um, I was at the New York Stock Exchange in recent weeks. A lot of people were saying to me essentially 15%, that's the new zero. It seems to be a number that's palatable to the market.Do you agree with this idea that the market can continue to move higher and that businesses can move with a certain degree of certainty with 15% tariffs. >> That's the big question. Uh, 15% looks like the baseline.Um, and that's that's the big question. Have we reached th ...

See, let's get uh to the other big trade story today. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant resuming talks with his Chinese counterparts on a potential deal with the US. Aean Jmers.Really. It's in Stockholm, Sweden. Well, isn't that uh nice.Uh and he joins us now. Good morning, uh Aean. Beautiful city.Good morning, Joe. Yeah, it is a beautiful city. Somebody had to throw themselves on the grenade to get this assignment, so I volunteered for it.Uh look, high stakes in Stockholm today. It's been a bumpy ride as yo ...

Meanwhile, the US and the EU reaching a framework trade agreement just a few days before punitive US tariffs were set to snap into place. The US will place a 15% import tariff on most goods from the EU. The EU planning to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the US and ramp up purchases of US energy and military equipment.Here is President Trump on all of this yesterday. I think it's great that we made a deal today instead of playing games and maybe not making a deal at all. I think it's uh I'm going t ...

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First China surged ahead of the US on clean power, and now India has, too, writes @davidfickling (via @opinion) https://t.co/0eosZFGetL ...

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RT More Births (@MoreBirths)South Korea's shocking population pyramid shows that demographic collapse is well underway.An added headwind in Korea (and China, too) is that there are a lot fewer women than men in the crucial 25-35 age range, the result of sex-selective abortions a generation ago. https://t.co/3bS0PzmhU5 ...

How a trade war with China could become a hot war -- and how the US can avoid it https://t.co/TnBq1eLAib ...