Pierre Bien-Aimé
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43 recordings
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 10 Sep
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WSJ Minute Briefing · Canada Announces New Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Imports · 25 Aug 2026
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I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal.
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In the latest development in the trade dispute between Canada and the US, Canada says it will put a tariff of up to fifty percent on products including steel, aluminum, motorcycles, chainsaws, and processed cheese.
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All in all the tariffs affect about seven percent of total US imports.
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They'd go into effect on september eighth.
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Meanwhile, President Trump is threatening to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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In a social media post, Trump says he's considering the change because the US doesn't expect to be, quote, doing much business with Ontario anymore.
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Canada likely wouldn't recognize a unilateral name change by the US.
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Securities regulators are investigating the trading of Situational Awareness, an AI-focused hedge fund that lost billions of dollars last month before selling off much of its portfolio.
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The journal has learned that the SEC has requested information from banks that finance the fund's bets.
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At its peak, the fund controlled about $100 billion in assets.
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A spokesman for Situational Awareness said it would cooperate with any regulatory request.
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And an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an unknown projectile overnight.
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The UK Maritime Trade Operations says the tanker was located off of Oman's coast when it was struck.
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Its crew was reported safe, but the vessel was left unable to operate.
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The attack comes after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant promised a new campaign to isolate Tehran economically.
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Iran is threatening to completely block Persian Gulf oil exports if the Trump administration doesn't back off.
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Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.
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And we have a lot more coverage on the WSJ's What's News.
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Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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