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  • US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell speaks in Chicago, on 16 April.

    Fed chair says Trump tariffs could make inflation worse as US stocks slide further

    Value of Nvidia dropped by billions on Wednesday after president imposed new restrictions on the chip giant
  • A ship unloads cargo containers at the Port of Los Angeles in California, US

    Trump tariffs will send global trade into reverse this year, warns WTO

  • a thumb hovers over betting apps on an iphone

    US gambling firms fight protections meant to reduce addiction-related harms, watchdog warns

    Firms pushed back against proposed regulations after surge in online gambling since 2018 supreme court ruling on sports betting
  • A laptop keyboard and Nvidia logo displayed on a phone screen

    Nvidia expects to take $5.5bn hit as US tightens AI chip export rules to China

    • a man in a green jacket stands on a snowy landscape

      Trump donors eye potential bonanza if US succeeds with Greenland land-grab

    • A plane with Air China branding at an airport

      China reportedly orders its airlines to halt Boeing jet deliveries amid US trade war

    • On top of a computer motherboard is a smartphone with a displayed Nvidia logo

      Nvidia says it will build up to $500bn of US AI infrastructure as chip tariff looms

    • an aerial view of shipping containers

      Trump administration sued over tariffs in US international trade court

In depth

  • people work on a car factory assembly line

    Michigan autoworkers wary of Trump’s tariffs: ‘Playing poker with people’s lives’

  • A trader watches his monitors

    What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?

    The reason the US president had to back down on tariffs once investors started dumping treasury bonds
  • A Spanish city surrounded by dry land, with a grib superimposed on it.

    Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

    Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

    Around the world

    • An aerial view of the British Steel plant, with large cooling towers in the foreground

      China accuses UK politicians of ‘arrogance’ in British Steel row

    • A hand covers a wine glass refusing a top-up from a pouring bottle.

      In the red: global wine sales fall to lowest levels since 1961

    • Bialetti is the maker of the famed stove-top moka pot.

      Italian coffee pot maker Bialetti to be sold to Chinese business NUO Capital

    • A gas processing facility, operated by Gazprom at Bovanenkovo gas field on the Arctic Yamal peninsula, Russia

      EU mulls plan to let importers break Russian gas contracts without penalties

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