Asian stocks are declining with the increasing ambiguity of Trump's commercial policy

Asian stocks and US stock futures have fallen, amid fluctuations caused by the ambiguity around President Donald Trump’s customs duties, which have encouraged investors to re -evaluate their appetite for high -risk assets. The stock index of shares fell 0.4%, led by the decline in Japanese stocks. The futures for US and European equity indicators also declined after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration was studying a temporary plan to impose customs duties on major sectors of the global economy. Hong Kong’s shares fell 1.4% after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bestent said that commercial talks with China ‘stumble somewhat’. The dollar settled on Friday after falling 0.4% in the previous session, while the Japanese yen rose slightly against the US dollar, with Tokyo inflation for its highest rate in two years. Back to note the addresses of customs duties and the legal ambiguity around them, returned to the forefront of market movements, which led investors to have their investment caution and reconsidering. The US economy was concerned about the beginning of the year, due to poor consumer spending and the exacerbation of the impact of trade more than expected. Wayne Thin, head of the World Market Strategy in Brown Brosos Hariman, said: “No matter what will happen, the markets realize that we are on our way to a long period of uncertainty. If your customs holding duties, increase the risk of inflationary recession, which is negative for both dollars and stocks,” Wayne thin, head of the world market strategy. In a legal development on Thursday, Federal Appeal Court President Trump granted a temporary deadline for a judicial decision that would cancel most of his customs agenda. The US administration celebrated the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal as a support of its position in the strong appeal against the International Commercial Court, which ruled to stop large parts of Trump’s customs duties imposed under the International Economic Mafewy. White House officials have announced that they will continue to defend the legality of their commercial procedures before the Supreme Court, and if they fail, Trump will use other powers to impose the same fees. Unprecedented confusion, Chris Weston, head of the research department at the Baybreston group in a note: “The first thing that came to me when I analyzed the flow of accelerated news on the issue of customs duties is that the state of confusion in the markets and the business community has reached an unprecedented level.” The Wall Street Journal reported that the administration is considering introducing temporary customs duties under a previously unused clause of the 1974 trade law, enabling the imposition of up to 15% for 150 days to address commercial imbalances with other countries. In another context, prices in Tokyo jumped in the highest rate in two years in a disturbing indication of Premier Shighgero Ishiba before the summer voting. Christina Clifton, chief economist in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, noted that high inflation and strong wage growth could push the Bank of Japan to increase interest in July and December. However, Clifton warned that “the risks to the bank or Japan tend to reduce the number of expected increases, given the global ambiguity and the effects of the negative American graphics on the Japanese economy.” In terms of economic data, continuous unemployment benefits in the United States have risen to the highest level since November 2021, which may indicate an increase in the unemployment rate this month. The sales of existing houses in America have also fallen in the highest rate since 2022 due to the high borrowing costs. In a direct meeting in the White House, Trump chaired the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates because he believes he was wrong by not lowering the borrowing costs.