Foreign policy
Trump says U.S. has ‘deal’ with Indonesia, but shares no details
Workers prepare customers’ orders at the main rice market in Jakarta on July 9, 2025. Bay Ismoyo | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has reached a deal with Indonesia, a week after he threatened to slap a 32% tariff on the southeast Asian country’s U.S. exports. Trump in a […]
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CNBC Daily Open: It’s refreshing to see tariffs used as a weapon for peace
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the day of announcing a deal to get weapons to NATO, in the Oval Office at the White House on July 14, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters Here’s a tariff we can get behind. At a White House meeting on Monday with NATO’s […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Trump brandishes tariffs for peace, not a trade war
US President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on July 14, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Here’s a tariff we can get behind. At a White House meeting on Monday with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, U.S. […]
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Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Russian export buyers unless Ukraine peace deal is reached by September
U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 14, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose “secondary tariffs” on Russia’s […]
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What Trump’s 30% tariff threat means for the European Union — in charts
Key Points The U.S. and EU have the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world, representing almost 30% of global trade in goods and services. Last year alone, the value of EU-U.S. trade amounted to 1.68 trillion euros ($1.96 trillion). That’s the equivalent of roughly 4.6 billion euros of trade per day. U.S. […]
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‘To be free in this world, you must be feared’: France’s Macron calls for defense spending boost
France’s President Emmanuel Macron arrives to deliver a speech to army leaders at l’Hôtel de Brienne in Paris on July 13, 2025, on the eve of the annual Bastille Day Parade in the French capital. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced plans for a substantial increase in […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Surprise tariff salvo on Saturday
President Donald Trump participates in a round table event at the Hill Country Youth Event Center to discuss last week’s flash flooding on July 11, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images No one likes working over the weekend. Unless you are the leader of the free world firing off social media posts […]
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Jamie Dimon has a blunt message for Europe: ‘You’re losing’
Key Points Jamie Dimon told an event in Ireland on Thursday that Europe was “losing” on competitiveness and lacked the kind of global, successful corporations common in the U.S. The JPMorgan Chase boss also told an event in Ireland that there was “complacency in the markets” around U.S. tariffs and rates. Dimon said he saw […]
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Asians are avoiding trips to the U.S. this year — for a variety of reasons
Tough talk on tariffs, reports of border detentions and unfavorable exchange rates are putting some travelers, especially Canadians, off trips to the United States this year. But those in Asia say they’re avoiding trips to the U.S. for different reasons. Nearly 80% of Southeast Asian travelers said the United States is losing appeal as a […]
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Trump threatened to ‘bomb the s— out’ of Moscow to deter Putin: CNN
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. Mikhail Metzel | Evelyn Hockstein | Via Reuters President Donald Trump told campaign donors last year that he had threatened to “bomb the s–t out of Moscow” if Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, according to a new report. Trump at the same donor meeting claimed […]
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