Going round in circles
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Why is Donald Trump threatening a 50% tariff on EU goods and how might it affect negotiations?
Donald Trump has complained that the negotiations with Europe are going nowhere, so he's going to heap far greater tariffs on them as soon as next weekend. But we've seen this before. Then he backtracks. Somehow, whilst he says the negotiations are going nowhere, are the rest of us going around in circles? And how seriously will the markets take this? And a US-made iPhone? Like that's going to happen anytime soon. This is the morning call. from NAB for Monday, the 26th of May 2025. Well, a big day on Friday for US equities with the S P down naught point seven percent, the Nasdaq down one percent, the Dow down naught point six percent. Over the week they were all down about two and a half or two point six percent, uh in the case of the S P, the winners in equities last week, with the hang saying it was up one point one percent, and the FTSE one hundred was up uh naught point four percent, surprisingly.
But in most places shares were in the red over the week and on Friday The ASX two hundred was up, but that was just Friday, and maybe that tells us uh how it's gonna start the day today with everybody else down. Thirty year treasuries, uh the rise in yields was the story of last week. Uh they rose over nine basis points for that uh for uh at the long end of the curve, although yields fell uh a little across the curve on Friday, uh across the curve and around the world actually. So Aussie ten years lost eight basis points on Friday, down eight for German ten year bond yields as well, down seven in the UK. A crazy week for gold. It was up five point six percent over the week. Uh more than uh two percent of that happening on Friday.
Brent and WTI managed a half percent rise on Friday, but over the week it was generally lower. So down one point five percent for WTI, one percent for Brent, and iron ore down two percent last week as well. Uh gold up though, as you might imagine, and currencies well the US US dollar uh lost over two percent last week. The winners were the Norwegian krona up two and a half percent, the yen up two point one percent, the Swiss franc up one point nine percent, uh, the pound up a little less than that, the Aussie rose just one point three percent. So the markets on Friday were well, sort of reacting to the latest Trump tirade. Uh let's talk about that with Nab Sure Atrel. So basically, uh He said negotiations with Europe and are going nowhere.
How did Friday’s market moves reflect the “Sell America” theme after the tariff news?
Uh so rather than waiting another month and a half and and hit them with a twenty percent tariff, they're gonna hit them with fifty percent uh by the weekend. But this is obviously a bargaining chip, isn't it? I mean Scott Besson has said as much, really, basically, saying that, you know, this is a jolt to try and get Europe back to the negotiating table. But uh Marcos have reacted to a little bit but But not wholly, it's fair to say.
Morning Phil. Yeah, I'd if I was trying to characterize in a in a sentence, you know, what happened on Friday in the course of the week, I'd say that the Cell America theme that was obviously the dominant narrative um you know back in April, i is is back on show here, where we've got that spectacle of falling US equity prices, falling bond prices, so higher yields, uh albeit not dramatically so last week, and a falling dollar. And um I think it is that combination of um obviously mood is on that you know And obviously that was then compounded by the passage of the uh the big beautiful um bill towards the end of last week. But I think this tariff threat, um, you know, as you say, I mean Scott Besson has been on TV saying this is designed to light a fire effectively under EU negotiators.
Um button. Even though
Donald Trump is actually saying the exact opposite. He's saying the deal's done, the deal is fifty the same. Absolutely. So I mean
markets are probably taken the view that and probably rightly so that you know where we land eventually on a a tariff um situation between the US and and the EU is not going to be at fifty percent. But how we get to where we get to from here um is frankly anybody's guess at the moment.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is Donald Trump threatening a 50% tariff on EU goods and how might it affect negotiations?
0:01–2:16
2
How did Friday’s market moves reflect the “Sell America” theme after the tariff news?
2:16–4:55
3
What happened to US equity indices, bond yields and the dollar after the tariff announcement?
4:55–7:07
4
How are commodity prices—gold, oil, iron ore—and major currencies reacting to the tariff threat?
7:07–9:24
5
Is a 25% tariff on iPhones realistic and what is the story behind the US‑made “Liberty Phone”?
9:24–12:14
6
What do the latest UK retail sales and weather‑driven spending data tell us about the British economy?
12:14–14:30
7
How are Japan’s CPI numbers and the yen’s performance influencing global inflation expectations?
14:30–16:40
8
What are the key upcoming events—EU‑US talks, Aussie CPI, Nvidia earnings—that could move markets this week?
16:40–18:14