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SSAB - April 10, 2025
Rally! Then a fall! This is a traders’ market for sure!
A pause on tariffs! Ninety days of relief puts us into July: another bad time for the market.
China should import more! The point seems to be that China has built a walled-off country within which it EXPORTS to the world, but doesn’t really bring anything in, ie IMPORTS, like the US does. Is this protectionist or just a smart move? Or is it Mao all over again?
https://www.cfr.org/blog/china-should-import-more (from 2018)
Apparently global trade has been slowing for a long time.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/ecb-slowdown-global-trade (from…
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