Asian share markets routed in early trading as Trump says ‘you have to take medicine’

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Donald Trump said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterised as “medicine,” as markets in Asia plunged in early trading on Monday. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late on Sunday, the US president indicated he was not concerned about market losses that have already wiped out nearly $6tn in value from US stocks. “I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbled nearly 9% in early trading on Monday, as concerns over...