Live rates: UK suspends some rates to facilitate commercial voltage as “days away”

SNL makes fun of “Messiah” Trump on the cotic rates policy
Saturday Night Live He filed Donald Trump for his tariff policy and continued the commercial war with China, following the cold “liberation day” of last week.
James Austin Johnson returned to the studio 8h at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as president in an Easter -themed sketch that started with Jesus, played by Mikey Day, launching the coin outside the temple on his arrival in Jerusalem.
The biblical tableau blocked while Trump appeared to SNL. “Remember someone?” He said to laugh. “Last week I also got rid of money, but instead of a temple, I made an entire country. Maybe the globe. The money has gone disappeared.”
“Hi, I’m your favorite president, Donald Jesus Trump, who confronts me once again with the son of God,” Johnson continued.
Oliver O’Connell has more details here:
Andy GregoryApril 13, 2025 22:59
The cuts of the UK “Savage” will free 55 million people of help all over the world
The cuts of “Savage” to foreign aid in the United Kingdom will leave 55.5 million of the poorest people in the world without access to basic resources, The Independent It can reveal.
The analysis of Save the Children, shared exclusively with this publication, puts the real impact of the cuts repeated to the budget, the latest news which will see only 0.3 percent of the gross national income (GNI), the lowest level in 25 years, will come down to the budget.
Women and girls will suffer more since the government is probably forced to reduce programs during global education, family planning, water and food aid.
Our correspondent of data ALICJA HAGOPIAN and whitehall editor Kate Devlin have the exclusive report here:
Andy GregoryApril 13, 2025 19:50
When Trump sneels, everyone captures a cold historian, he says
Donald Trump behaves like a 19th century European autocrat, suggested a historian.
“We have a democratic leader who seems to have the authority to act in an extravagant way as a European autocrat of the 19th century,” he told the Associated Press Tim Naftali, historian and senior research scholar at Columbia University. “Staten them and everyone takes colds.”
Professor Natfali added: “What the president ends up having is what he wants, which is always the attention of everyone”.
Andy GregoryApril 13, 2025 18:46
The markets that do not behave as if the US dollar was the world reserve currency, warns the analyst
Shareholders were cautiously looking at the moves between the activities of activity, in particular the dollar and the treasure. An index that measures the US dollar against a currency basket on Friday has fallen below 100 for the first time in almost two years, while the performance on the binding of the United States treasure at 10 years has been in step for its largest weekly leap for decades.
In many previous risk events, the dollar and the treasure have acted as safe paradises, but it was not the case in the last week when the actions have collapsed, said Walter Todd, Chief Investment Officer of Greenwood Capital in the South Carolina.
“We are the reserve currency and the activity without risks of the world and our markets do not act as such,” said Todd.
The performance of the treasure at 10 years of Friday exceeded 4.5 percent, which investors have mentioned as a level that could cause turbulence for shares. The higher returns translate into higher loan costs for consumers and companies, potentially making the most competitive investments against shares.
“Until the treasure stabilize and begin to behave normally, the risk activities will make the Barclays analysts said in a Friday note.
ReutersApril 13, 2025 17:51
The majority of voters now believe that Trump is not a friend of Great Britain, suggests the poll
More than half of British adults now believe that Donald Trump is not “a friend of Great Britain”, according to the new polls that suggest that the figure has increased by 12 % since January.
Survey for opinions, commissioned by The observerHe discovered that 34 % of the United Kingdom voters now believe that the United States are more a threat than an ally, compared to the only 16 % that held this opinion in November. Only 35 % of respondents said they currently trust Washington as an ally.
That number went down even lower when it comes to Trump in particular, with only 16 % of the British voters probed, saying they believed being reliable, against 64 % who did not do it.
Andy GregoryApril 13, 2025 16:54
Trump waiting for the Chinese XI to call him personally during the commercial war, he reports the claims
Donald Trump is waiting for the Chinese leader XI Jinping to call him personally, while Chinese officials are wary in putting XI in an unpredictable and potentially embarrassing call, The New York Times reports.
Trump said he would like to talk to Mr. XI, but he stopped requesting a phone call, believing that it is Beijing’s turn to ask for a call, he reported the outlet, citing sources who are familiar with the matter.
Andy GregoryApril 13, 2025 15:51
British government to cut rates on 89 products in an attempt to reduce costs for businesses and consumers
The Sir Keir Starmer government has announced that it will temporarily suspend the global rate of the United Kingdom on 89 products in order to relieve pressure on companies in the face of the global withdrawals of Donald Trump.
The global rate of the United Kingdom – which applies to goods that enter the United Kingdom that do not qualify for preferential treatment in the context of free trade agreements – will be suspended until 2027 on a wide range of products including pasta, fruit juices, agave syrup, plants, plywood and plastic bulbs.
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said: “From food to furniture, this will reduce the cost of everyday items for businesses, with hoping that the savings have passed to consumers.
“While we face a new era of global trade, this government is going faster to make Great Britain the best country to do business, delivering our plan for change. These suspensions are only another example.”
Andy GregoryApril 13, 2025 15:41
Mercati ‘trapped by uncertainty’ on rates, warns the analyst
The stock market remains “very unstable” while investors weigh how to evaluate any economic relapse from the background of evolving rates, Mark Luschini, head of the investments of the company Janney Montgomery Scott a Reuters.
The market is “somehow trapped by the level of uncertainty that hides out there,” said Luschini. “And therefore investors are not largely willing to make great bets in one direction or another.”
Andy GregoryApril 13, 2025 15:21
The United States Secretary of Commerce states that the exempted electronic products are subjected to separate rates
In an interview with ABC’s This weekThe United States Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said that smartphones, computers and other electronics, including semiconductors, will be subjected to separate rates.
Lutnick said that these separate rates can be imposed in about a month.
Andy GregoryApril 13, 2025 14:42