Trump’s tariff threats at the end of the week have become real for global investors

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Last week, the head of trading in one mediation in Tokyo said, the markets were not sure of what they saw. Was Donald Trump serious about the definitions, or was it the edge of the abyss? Will there be a sudden rash of deals that made everything go away? Was this the end of the global trading system?

“Then during the weekend, when I saw China engraved on the definitions, Trump moved with confirmation that the disturbances were” medicine “and there are no deals offered to the United States friendly countries like Japan, and everyone came on Monday more than this was bad, and for this real,” he said, as it was included in the list over a distance of more than 9 percent in the open.

Analysts said that the most disturbing aspects of Monday sales in Tokyo and Asia were the extent that was rational, rather than panic.

Perhaps it is more concerned for those who wonder whether relief may suddenly come from the White House is a look at the Dow Jones index since the beginning of the first Trump presidency in 2017: more than 90 percent rose even after last week’s decrease. “Do you think the markets can take a lot of pain as long as they are in black in its watch?”

The weekend allowed the market participants to consider the effects of customs tariffs, but also a possible global recession and a flood of cheap Chinese goods that have been directed to non -American markets. This can lead to shrinkage tsunami and central banks will have a limited ability to contain damage.

For Japan in particular, this group of concerns is significantly questioning the central bank’s ability to raise prices and normalize monetary policy.

The extremist excitement in Tokyo – which has declined shares, declines bond returns and great fluctuations in the yen – envelops the difficulty facing investors now through asset classes. As many merchants indicated, most of the global turmoil so far have been driven by shorter money. The markets have not yet felt the effect of what could be much larger than risk through long global money.

As one of the assets manager, who is based in Tokyo, said it is difficult to think about a time when the situation presented such bilateral results, with a little vision on either side. The market is now properly pricing the idea that no one talks about Trump except Trump, “which reduces the world of market sources to one person.”

The director added: “If the customs tariff meets these levels,” it is not too late to sell the shares. If the definitions become non -binding, this mother is from all the apostasy. Get the correct positioning of the two results at completely different ends of the spectrum is very difficult. “

For many years, the stock brokers in Tokyo said that the DIPS strategy has worked well. For many, the moments of disturbances were an explicit chance. There was a perception, which he took out again and again through experience, and that recovery would come in the end and that all the risks would fall into the loss of apostasy.

Suddenly, anxiety is that enough now through Trump’s actions so that this strategy is in doubt: there may be deals to be done on customs tariffs, but Japan shows how high the tape is. Japan is the closest ally of America in Asia, and the largest direct investor in the United States. It has now been included between “Pillaagers” in America and has failed to secure any relaxation of the “liberation day” of 24 percent.

In fact, Prime Minister Shigro Ishiba admitted to Parliament on Monday that the salvation of Japan may be in the hope of obtaining the best in introductory relief, but preparing for the worst through home motivation.

If it is right, the world’s investors have a lot of re -placing it in front of them.