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Stocks, Bond Yields Tumble As EU Threatens “Immediate Retaliation” To Trump Tariffs

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Confirming expectations, Wilbur Ross announced the steel, aluminum tariffs expemptions were lifted on EU, Mexico, and Canada. This prompted angry responses from the head of the EU bloc’s executive Jean-Claude Juncker who said that the European Union will impose counter measures immediately.

“This is a bad day for world trade,” Juncker said in a speech in Brussels.

“So we will immediately introduce a settlement dispute with the WTO and will announce counter balancing measures in the coming hours.”

“It is totally unacceptable that a country is imposing unilateral measures when it comes to world trade.” 

US Stocks slumped on the news…

But, Wilbur Ross told CNBC shortly after the tariffs announcement that “we don’t know why the stock market is going down.”

And Treasury yields are sliding once again…

And the dollar is safe-haven bid…

As Italian bond yields are rising once again…

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