Market Factors: A deeper dive into how TSX investors are trading the tariff war

After three tiresome months of threats, deadlines, ultimatums and pauses, the opening salvos in the great North American trade war have finally been lobbed. This is investment reporter Tim Shufelt, and today we're talking about - what else? - tariffs, Trump and trade. Our focus will be on how the stock market has attempted to process the bewildering breakdown of the system of free trade that forms one of the pillars of the Canadian economy. We'll also look at how European defence stocks have bolted skyward since the U.S. suspended aid to Ukraine. And we'll touch on the trade war…