Fasten seatbelts for the Trump twitter-storm fallout

Fasten seatbelts for the Trump twitter-storm fallout
Jenny Ruth
By Jenny Ruth Aug. 26 (BusinessDesk) - It will be a case of fasten your seat belts and expect turbulence as markets across Asia open today after the escalation of the US-China trade war, US President Donald Trump's tweets labelling his own Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell an “enemy” and his threatening tariffs on French wine. That's even as he headed to France for the latest G7 meeting of the leaders of nations supposed to be US allies. “We should expect a rough week ahead as investors ponder just how high the stakes have been raise...

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