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  • Fed chair warns Trump tariffs could cause inflation as US stocks slide further

    Value of Nvidia dropped by billions on Wednesday after president imposed new restrictions on the chip giant

    US stocks fell again on Wednesday after Donald Trump imposed a new trade restriction on the chip designer Nvidia, rattling investors as the Federal Reserve’s chair warned the president’s tariffs are generating a “challenging scenario”.

    The chip giant’s announcement was followed by a warning from Fed chair Jerome Powell that Trump’s tariffs were likely to “generate “at least a temporary rise in inflation” and that those effects could “also be more persistent”.

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  • US begins inquiry into pharmaceutical and chip imports in bid to impose tariffs

    Notices show Trump administration setting stage for levies on both sectors on national security grounds

    The Trump administration is kicking off investigations into imports of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors into the US as part of an attempt to impose tariffs on both sectors on national security grounds, notices posted to the Federal Register on Monday showed.

    The filings scheduled to be published on Wednesday set a 21-day deadline from that date for the submission of public comment on the issue and indicate the administration intends to pursue the levies under authority granted by the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Such inquiries need to be completed within 270 days after being announced.

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