{"id":32204,"date":"2025-02-03T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/asian-sharemarkets-tumble-in-response-to-trump-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:00:35","slug":"asian-sharemarkets-tumble-in-response-to-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/asian-sharemarkets-tumble-in-response-to-trump-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian sharemarkets tumble in response to Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European futures also down more than 3% after Trump indicates tariffs will \u2018definitely happen\u2019 in EU countries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/02\/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-retaliation\">Trump tariffs spark retaliation from Mexico, China and Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asian sharemarkets tumbled in early trade on Monday after the Trump administration\u2019s imposition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/01\/trump-tariffs-explainer-mexico-canada-china\">tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China<\/a> sparked fears of an escalating global trade war.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s Taiex fell 4.4% at the open, led by a more than 6% plunge in semiconductor heavyweight TSMC. Japan\u2019s Topix index was down as much as 2.3% and Korea\u2019s Kospi fell as much as 2.4%, led by major exporters with exposure to global markets, including Canada and Mexico such as electronics manufacturers Samsung and LG, and automaker Kia. China\u2019s sharemarkets remain closed for the lunar new year holidays.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/03\/asian-sharemarkets-tumble-in-response-to-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European futures also down more than 3% after Trump indicates tariffs will \u2018definitely happen\u2019 in EU countries Trump tariffs spark retaliation from Mexico, China and Canada Asian sharemarkets tumbled in early trade on Monday after the Trump administration\u2019s imposition of tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China sparked fears of an escalating global trade war. Taiwan\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Asian sharemarkets tumble in response to Trump tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/asian-sharemarkets-tumble-in-response-to-trump-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Asian sharemarkets tumble in response to Trump tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}