Ftse falls for the fears that Trump will impose paralyzing rates in Great Britain this week: the United Lates policy policy

The pound has increased against the dollar to be on the right road to its best month in over a year while the United States face the prospect of a recession after Donald Trump has announced international rates, according to the lenders.

Sterling was said to be directed to an increase of almost 3 % compared to the dollar this month, bringing it to its best month since November 2023.

Michalis Rusakis and Claudio Piron, Merrill Lynch, said The telegraph: “The rates through the edge would be a negative surprise, in our opinion.

“Our main concern is” something rupture “with aggressive rates, triggering a risk of queue of a strong market on the market, pushing the dollar much higher in the short term.”

The Kremlin asked the threat of Donald Trump’s penalties, said Russia is working with the United States on Ukrainian settlement ideas.

The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia and the United States were working on ideas not specified on a possible peace settlement in Ukraine after the President of the United States Donald Trump said he was “pissed off” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump told the NBC News that he was very angry after Putin last week criticized the credibility of the leadership of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, according to reports from the television network, citing a telephone interview on Sunday.

Trump said he would have imported secondary rates of 25 % to 50 % on Russian oil buyers if he felt that Moscow was blocking his efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

As a question about Trump’s comments, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin remained open to contacts with Trump and that a call to each other could be created with short notice if necessary, although no call was foreseen for this week.

Peskov said Moscow and Washington continued to work to build bilateral ties.

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One of the main British commercial experts believes that if Donald Trump goes on with his turn of rates on Wednesday 2 April, he will translate into a great geo-political change.

Marco Forni, general manager at the Chartered Institute of Export and International Trade, suggested that it will translate into important Western democracies that turn their backs in the United States and work more closely.

He said to The Independent: “There will be a geo-political change with Canada, the EU, the United Kingdom and Australia that form a closer commercial partnership.

“This means the development of a formal or informal collaboration. It will not replace the US market, but certainly as regards goods it could establish a new collaborative negotiation community.”

The turn adapts to the current belonging to the United Kingdom to the Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) global and progressive of which Canada and Australia are already members and Japan.

But it would also potentially help Sir Keir Starmer with his Brexit restoration interviews with the EU.

Asian actions collapsed today with reference parameters in Tokyo and Taiwan that descend more than 4 %, while the gold price reached a record of a record at almost $ 3,150 per oncia.

Many of the countries that manage commercial surpluses with the United States and depend strongly on the production of exports are in Asia, said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management in a comment.

“Asia is zero. Of the 21 countries under Usr control (commercial representative of the United States), nine are in Asia,” he observed.

The set of Thailand lost 1.5 percent after a powerful earthquake focused on Myanmar has agitated the region.

Tokyo’s benchmark dropped by 4.1 percent to 35,617.56, while the Hang Seng A Hong Kong lost 1.2 percent to 23,135.01. Shanghai composite index decreased by 0.5 percent to 3,335.67.

In South Korea, Kospi dropped by 3 % to 2,481.12, while Taiwan’s Taiex lost 4.2 percent.

The FTSE 100 continued to dive after Donald Trump has announced global rates.

The FTSE 100 collapsed by 1.2 percent in London this morning, since the actions fell all over the world.

In London, the actions are struggling to recover.

Europe should “take the reins now” while Donald Trump’s rates loom, said the head of the European Central Bank, warning that the continent is in an “existential moment”.

Christine Lagarde insisted that the 25 % rate of the President of the United States in the automotive sector offers an opportunity.

He told France Inter Radio: “I consider it a moment when we can decide together to take our fate in our hands and I think it is a march for independence.

“We are in an existential moment for Europe in which if we are able to take this step to independence, in terms of defense – which is not my topic, so I will not talk about it: energy and finance, which is much more my topic. We must absolutely take the reins now.”

Five nationality together represented more than half of the total number of migrants who were detected entering the kingdom illegally united in 2024.

Afghan citizens were the most common group, which constitutes 15 % (6,339) of the 43,630 migrants who arrived in the country through the illegal routes last year, show offices data.

The most common nationality were Iranian (5,370 or 12 percent), Syrian (4,945 or 11 percent), Eritrea (3,920 or 9 percent) and Vietnames (3,798 or 9 %).

About 1,457 arrivals last year (3 percent) had not recorded nationality.

The first two nationalities of 2024, Afghan and Iranian, were also the most common in 2023, representing 17 % and 14 % of total arrivals respectively in that year.

The percentage of arrivals that were Vietnamese rose from 4 % in 2023 to 9 % in 2024, while the percentage from Syria increased from 7 % to 11 %.

Separately, it is worth noting that as well as the rates that weigh on the prices of the shares, the Primark owner is the largest failure in morning trading on the Aftse 100 – Associated British Foods (ABF) is already down 4.6 percent.

This is following the departure of the CEO of Primark Paul Marchant, who resigned after an accusation on his behavior towards a woman in a social event.

Abf said that Marchant has lowered himself with immediate effect and the financial director Eoin Tonge will take over on a provisional basis.

Marchant has led Primark since 2009. While ABF has a wide -ranging empire including agriculture, production of ingredients and food brands including Twinnings and Kingsmill, the Primark clothing dealer is a key component of the business and has contributed with almost half the total revenue of the group £ 20 billion last year. The parent company, the CEO of ABF, George Weston, said he was “immensely disappointed” for the situation.

It was certainly one morning of negative feeling regarding markets in the United Kingdom and Europe, following a greater tariff concern of the weekend and a strong drop during the night in Asia.

By 9:00 after an hour of negotiation, only 10 % of the FTSE 100 companies were in positive territory and only three had increased by more than 0.4 percent.

On a wider lens, while the FTSE 100 is down 0.85 percent as a whole, the smaller companies have worse so far: the Ftse 250 is down 1.34 percent, while in Europe each of the CAC 40 in France, the Dax in Germany and the Euronext 100 have decreased between 0.7 and 0.8 per cent each.

The uncertainty is heavily weighing the minds of investors in view of further ads of the Trump administration – and with its expiry of April 2 to impose further duties to the greatest importers in the United States.