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Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe Edition

China To 'Fight To The End', Trump Market Shocks & iPhone Panic Buying

08 Apr 2025

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Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.On today's podcast:(1) China pledged to retaliate against Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat and stepped up efforts to support the market, raising the risk of a prolonged trade war between the world’s two largest economies. (2) Japan looks set to get priority in US tariff talks, moving to the front of a long line of countries seeking to roll back President Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal duties, which are scheduled to kick in on Wednesday. (3) President Donald Trump threatened to slap China with an additional 50% import tax, while Washington and Wall Street remained engulfed in confusion about how to gain exceptions from his sweeping global tariffs.  (4) At just after 10 a.m., shouting erupted on the Siebert trading floor in downtown Manhattan. Mark Malek, the firm’s chief investment officer, rushed out of his office to hear his head trader screaming that President Donald Trump was weighing suspending the across-the-board tariff roll-out that had been sinking stock markets for days. (5) Billionaire Ken Griffin said President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs amount to a hefty tax on families and are a “huge policy mistake” by the administration. (6) European Union trade ministers closed ranks and signaled readiness to deploy a full spectrum of countermeasures including potential taxes on digital companies in response to US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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