Markets ignore a 50% hit on Brazil
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Why are markets ignoring the 50% tariff on Brazilian imports?
So just why are markets ignoring tariffs now? Are they bored? Do they think they won't happen? Or do they think they're gonna have little impact on the economy? Well President Trump has announced a fifty percent levy on goods from Brazil. That's his latest proclamation. And equities rose. And the Aussie dollar rose as well today. Well look at why that is. It's a good day for commodity currencies, it seems. It's Fridays, the eleventh of July 2025. It's the morning call from NAB. Good morning. So another session where equities in the US are shrugging off tariff raise. The Dow is up naught point four percent, not point three percent for the S P, but just naught point one percent for the NASDAQ. In the UK, the FTSE one hundred is up one point two percent, whilst the DAX is down naught point four percent.
And the US dollar has inched up slowly. The Aussie though is up naught point eight percent this morning to sixty five point nine US cents. The euro is down a quarter. The pound is down 0.1%, so the Aussie, the best performer of the major currencies this morning. We've got small movements in bond yields up just one basis point for 10-year treasuries, up to 4.35%, up three basis points for German bundes, down two for UK ten-year guilts, Aussie 10 years yesterday at 4.28%. Today on futures up to 4.33%. And oil prices are down 2.6% off WTI. Two point two percent off Brent, down below sixty eight seventy a barrel now, and copper, well, uh because of those tires, perhaps up two point three percent, almost twelve percent in the last few sessions.
So Ray Atrill is here to round off the week for us from NAV in Sydney. So another tariff from Trump, fifty percent on everything from Brazil, but not because of trade, because of politics. He doesn't like the treatment of the former president. Jair Bolsonaro, who's uh undergoing a trial, uh so this is interesting, isn't it? It just shows anything is possible, even if your country has a trade deficit with the United States, uh you know, even if it's it th they'll he'll even target, you know, your country's judiciary proceedings. So how does Brazil respond to that?
How is the 50% Brazil tariff affecting US equity and commodity markets today?
But also the market's not responding to it at all, as though they really don't care anymore.
Yeah, good morning, Phil. It's um I think it's one of those days where um there ain't a lot of rhyme or reason to the way that the markets are reacting relative to the to the news flow. But uh 'cause as you say, this sort of does really, you know, take the whole issue of of of tariffs and its use as a as a as a political as well as an economic policy lever to uh to a whole new level, doesn't it? And uh in answer to the question how that
means he could go anywhere from
From here. Yeah, absolutely. And I think that because of that, I think the markets are, you know, uh the theme that we've been, you know, discussing since the beginning of the month is that, you know, we really don't or since the you know the various letters have been issued, uh, and because you've got that sort of stay of execution on their implementation until August the first, we really don't know where we're going to land come, you know, August the first, and who knows whether that August the first deadline gets shunted out. So there's still that sort of suspicion, if you like, that we're in for another um taco episode uh between now and then. And um particular focus I would say there, uh as as far as it relates to this part of the world, um, is whether those twenty five percent tariffs that were announced on Japan and South Korea, which are the second and third biggest trading partners for uh for Australia after China.
China and we're still awaiting to hear about India, which is the fifth largest trading partner. Um but, you know, markets are taking a sort of pretty sanguine view just at the moment because they really just don't know. you know, how this thing is is is going to play out. And but obviously we've got more evidence of the sort of capricious nature of um the President Trump's dealing with with countries and broadening it out to sort of, you know, political
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why are markets ignoring the 50% tariff on Brazilian imports?
0:01–2:01
2
How is the 50% Brazil tariff affecting US equity and commodity markets today?
2:01–5:53
3
What does Ray Atrill say about the potential economic impact of the new tariffs?
5:53–11:39
4
How are Japanese car makers responding to the 25% tariff on US exports?
11:39–15:23
5
What are the Fed officials saying about rate cuts amid tariff‑related inflation concerns?
15:23–17:43
6
What do the latest US jobless claims numbers reveal about the labour market?
17:43–19:26