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US tariffs on UK impact
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Not sure how your friends vote in the US impacts either US tariffs or UK stocks? Or why this would influence your small exposure to US bonds (not that it has anything to do with this thread either!).Bostonerimus1 said:
Well quiet until the next ruckus. My Republican friends in the US won't be voting for Trump in the mid terms, but they didn't vote for him last time either. I continue to gradually reduce my small exposure to US Bonds.EthicsGradient said:eg"Stock Market News, Jan. 21, 2026: Dow ends up nearly 600 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq jump after Trump walks away from tariff threats and says framework of a deal on Greenland is reached"0 -
Voting intensions and polls might affect US tariff policies in the near term and will definitely impact them in the mid to long term. Some targeted tariffs might help some workers for a moment, but the anti-competitive nature of broad tariffs isn't good for anyone in the long term. US tariffs will reduce UK exports and growth...so not good. I look at the level and ownership of US debt and the attacks on the independence Fed and I'm not as sanguine as I once was about US bonds.Altior said:
Not sure how your friends vote in the US impacts either US tariffs or UK stocks? Or why this would influence your small exposure to US bonds (not that it has anything to do with this thread either!).Bostonerimus1 said:
Well quiet until the next ruckus. My Republican friends in the US won't be voting for Trump in the mid terms, but they didn't vote for him last time either. I continue to gradually reduce my small exposure to US Bonds.EthicsGradient said:eg"Stock Market News, Jan. 21, 2026: Dow ends up nearly 600 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq jump after Trump walks away from tariff threats and says framework of a deal on Greenland is reached"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.2
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