Morning Bid: Markets now eye government shutdown after trade row
From one crunch to another, markets are finding it hard to catch a break as we go from tit-for-tat trade wars one day to U.S. government shutdown fears the next. Today I'll take a look at how all of the U.S. policy uncertainty and diplomatic upheavals have sparked a conversation in global investment circles about trust and transparency in U.S. governance and how eroding that could undermine the U.S. position as the world's dominant investment destination. Today's Market Minute * President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to escalatea global trade war with further tariffs on European Union goods,as major U.S. trading partners said they would retaliate fortrade barriers already erected by the U.S. president.
