{"id":38555,"date":"2025-04-11T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/what-are-bonds-and-why-have-they-spooked-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:51:10","slug":"what-are-bonds-and-why-have-they-spooked-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/what-are-bonds-and-why-have-they-spooked-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason the US president had to back down on tariffs once investors started dumping treasury bonds<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/apr\/11\/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war-us-china-markets-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s tariff war has spooked stock markets and heightened fears of a recession in the US and Europe. But neither factor appears to have been what motivated the president\u2019s sudden volte-face this week, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/09\/trump-address-republicans-china-tariffs\">paused most of his \u201cliberation day\u201d border taxes for 90 days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact Trump could not ignore was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/09\/dramatic-sell-off-of-us-government-bonds-as-tariff-war-panic-deepens\">mass sell-off by investors of US government bonds<\/a>. But what exactly are bonds, how are they traded \u2013 and why are they so central to the current crisis?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/11\/what-are-bonds-and-why-have-they-spooked-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason the US president had to back down on tariffs once investors started dumping treasury bonds Business live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump\u2019s tariff war has spooked stock markets and heightened fears of a recession in the US and Europe. But neither factor appears to have been what motivated the president\u2019s sudden volte-face this &#8230; <a title=\"What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/what-are-bonds-and-why-have-they-spooked-donald-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?\">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-38555","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\/38555","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=38555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}