The announcement of customs duties by Donald Trump made the financial markets very nervous on Tuesday.
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The trade war launched by Donald Trump plunged, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, most of the world’s scholarships in the red. Its announcement to increase taxes on Mexican, Canadian, and Chinese imports, has also unscrewed European scholarships and CAC 40 thus closed sharply at -2%. While Wall Street was rather doped by the arrival of Trump, in New York, the Dow Jones like the Nasdaq, with a strong technological coloring, also stung the nose. Even Bitcoin, the flagship value of Donald Trump lost 4.5%, ditto for the greenback, which has also lost its color.
Investors fear price increases and It is important to specify that the increase in customs duties has never been so high since the 1940s. Investors fear that the world economic order will be completely turned upside down, that all value chains will be jostled and that growth is slowed down, in the United States, but also in China.
Faced with so many uncertainties, investors remove their profits and take their earnings, especially since the situation may deteriorate, because the countries targeted by the new “Prices” Americans are preparing their reprisals. Beijing has already replied by announcing taxes of 10 to 15% on a series of agricultural products from the United States, but the Chinese Communist Party Congress opens on Thursday, March 6. In this context and in an opportunistic way, investors turn away from the investments they deem risky and seek security.
Indeed, defense, armament or cybersecurity are today the sectors that attract. It is the rare titles that fly away on the stock market, while the actions of the armaments were looked at with a form of distance. They now become real refuge values.
The question that all experts are asking is whether Donald Trump can really remain insensitive to the reaction of the markets. The risk of falling to Wall Street and a stock market Krach may be the only things likely to slow down the ardors of Donald Trump, much more than any political discourse. It will ultimately be the last recall string so that the American president renounces executing his commercial threats.
