Tariffs latest: US markets open down – while rest of world rallies


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Did Trump realise his mistake or cave to pressure? Donald Trump's decision to pause his tariffs for 90 days was born from him realising he'd made a grave mistake. That's according to Thomas Gift, director of the centre on US politics at University College London. He tells presenter Gareth Barlow he thinks Trump was also under pressure from Republicans concerned over what impact tariffs could have on next year's midterms. "A lot of his backers in the White House had said that this was his play all along, and that he was essentially playing four dimensional chess while everybody else...