Markets braced for Liberation Day
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are on track to post their worst trading week since September 2023 ahead of next week’s Trump tariff blitz on ‘Liberation Day’, April 2nd. Chinese President Xi Jinping hosts CEOs in Beijing in a bid to boost business ties and calls for trade dialogue with the U.S. We hear from Santander chair Ana Botin who calls U.S. tariffs as a tax on consumers and says that the levies will hit America harder than Europe. And in entertainment news, French gaming company Ubisoft secures a more-than-€1bn investment from Chinese tech giant Tencent to help back its largest franchises.