Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.On today's podcast:(1) President Donald Trump’s deliberations over his plans to impose reciprocal tariffs are coming down to the wire, with his team said to be still finalizing the size and scope of the new levies he is slated to unveil on Wednesday afternoon.(2) Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee warned of the negative consequences of any slowdown in consumer spending or business investment due to tariff-related uncertainty.(3) The UK government is bracing for US tariffs set to be outlined this week by President Donald Trump to hit the British economy, even as the two governments continue talks on a potential carve-out.(4) The White House is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal government to control Greenland as a territory, the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump's desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable policy.(5) Elon Musk’s candidate faced a resounding loss in a Wisconsin judicial race despite the world’s richest man pouring millions into the campaign, while Republicans avoided upsets in two critical US House seats in Donald Trump’s home state of Florida.(6) As US President Donald Trump prepares to launch a new wave of levies aimed at reducing America’s trade deficits and bringing manufacturing back to home soil, pharmaceuticals are high on the list of targets. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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