{"id":114891,"date":"2025-02-28T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/finance\/global-stocks-slide-as-fears-grow-over-tariffs-and-us-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:25:20","slug":"global-stocks-slide-as-fears-grow-over-tariffs-and-us-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=114891","title":{"rendered":"Global stocks slide as fears grow over tariffs and US economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Simply sign up to the <!-- -->Equities<!-- --> myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=9e8a76d8-6aaf-4c04-9c70-0b19c31c6547&amp;concept-id=b7ea3c33-ea8c-432e-bb7e-e3bbc8fdc2bb\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Global stocks fell on Friday, extending a sharp sell-off on Wall Street, after Donald Trump\u2019s latest threat to impose tariffs on America\u2019s biggest trading sparked fears over the potential damage to the world economy.<\/p>\n<p>The broad Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 0.6 per cent in early trading, led by a 0.9 per cent fall in Germany\u2019s exporter-heavy Dax and a 0.6 per cent decline in France\u2019s benchmark Cac 40 index. <\/p>\n<p>Markets fell across Asia, with Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 index losing 2.9 per cent, South Korea\u2019s Kospi sliding 3.4 per cent and Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng index tumbling almost 6 per cent. Mainland China\u2019s CSI 300 benchmark lost 4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The steep declines followed a bruising day on Wall Street as investors were blindsided by the latest trade salvo from Trump, who said he would impose an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8c633f79-2cc3-4bb6-a4a8-6c73e460a5e3\" data-trackable=\"link\">additional 10 per cent tariff<\/a> on Chinese imports and press ahead with levies on Canada and Mexico from March 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last days have been painful to a number of investors\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009Trump\u2019s tariff announcement has rattled the already fragile market,\u201d said Mohit Kumar, an analyst at Jefferies.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a barrage of threats since taking office last month, Trump has only imposed a 10 per cent tariff on Chinese imports, but there are signs that the spectre of a trade war has dented consumer confidence in the US, the world\u2019s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>Confidence this month fell by the most since August 2021, according to a Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index released this week.<\/p>\n<p>The weakness in Asia and Europe came after big tech stocks led declines on Wall Street on Thursday, when the Nasdaq closed down 2.8 per cent and the S&amp;P 500 finished 1.6 per cent lower, wiping out its gains for the year. <\/p>\n<p>Chipmaker Nvidia, the biggest winner from investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence over the past two years, fell 8.4 per cent after its fourth-quarter earnings beat analysts\u2019 forecasts but still failed to ignite a wider rally.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia is no longer the electrifying force it was for US stocks for much of the past two years, when its blowout quarterly results often powered the wider market higher. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNvidia didn\u2019t save the world,\u201d said Mike Zigmont, co-head of trading at Visdom Investment Group. \u201cThe results were great but not so mind-blowingly great that everyone wants to buy more stocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s election victory in November powered US stocks higher on hopes the new administration would enact pro-business economic policies, but the S&amp;P 500 has slipped in recent days as focus has instead turned to the potential threats to the US economy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBears are winning the battle right now,\u201d said Zigmont.<\/p>\n<p>Retail investors, who have so often stepped in to buy stocks whenever the market dips, are suddenly gripped by \u201cunease\u201d, according to VandaTrack, a data company that monitors retail trading flows.<\/p>\n<p>The retreat from riskier assets has hit cryptocurrencies hard in recent days. On Friday, bitcoin fell 5 per cent and ethereum shed 6.6 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>China and the US \u201cdon\u2019t seem to be at that stage yet where either side is serious about making a deal\u201d, said Julian Evans-Pritchard, head of China economics at Capital Economics. \u201cThis is probably not the last tariff hike.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The dollar rose 0.8 per cent against a basket of trading partners\u2019 currencies on Thursday but moderated gains on Friday, adding a further 0.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Fears of an impending economic slowdown look overblown to some market participants, however.<\/p>\n<p>After a strong end to 2024, weak consumer sentiment data released over the past week has given \u201cover-extended markets the opportunity to correct\u201d, said Steven Blitz, chief US economist at TS Lombard. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump recession? 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