Duties, thud of Asian bags: Taiwan -9.8, Hong Kong -9.2%. Trump: « Medicine to be treated »

New collective thud of Asian bags. The climate of dramatic uncertainty about the markets, triggered by the burst of duties imposed by the US on incoming goods, It is continuing to burn hundreds and hundreds of billions. At the opening, The Tokyo Stock Exchange lost 7.4%. After the first exchanges, the Nikkei index in fact dropped to 31,255 points, leaving 7.44%on the ground, while the topix dropped by 8.14%.

In The Kosppi index of the South Korean bag of Seoul is also decreasingat the opening, which dropped by 4.77%, while the S&P/ASX 200 of Sydney’s Australian business square collapsed by 5.83%. In beaten, with negative record, the Hong Kong stock exchange, collapsed at the start of session: the Hang Seng index loses almost one tenth of its value, yielding 2,119.76 points (-9.28%)at an altitude of 20,730.05. HSBC, in detail, marks a thud of 15.85%, while the Chinese hi-tech giants Alibaba and Tencent lose in the early bars, respectively, 9.72%and 7.43%.

Va even worse in Taiwan, where the taiex, the weighted bag of the bag is collapsed by 9.8% at the openingshortly after the resumption of the counterattacks after a long weekend. This thud is also directly linked to the negative reaction of the traders for the new duties decreed by President Donald Trump, who triggered one massive selling on world markets since last week.

Everything while, speaking from the Air Force One, The President of the United States continues to keep tones high: «This week I talked to many Europeans, Asian, all over the world. They are dying from the desire to make an agreement »on the duties. And then: «The collapses of the bags? « Sometimes it is necessary to take drugs to cure yourself. » Finally, once again, Trump shoots bordered against EU countries: «Europe has made a fortune with us. Europe treated us very badly « but » they are coming to the table. They want to speak, but we don’t talk if they don’t pay us a lot of money on an annual basis ».

Meanwhile, China is loudly asks for the opening of a negotiation with the White House. « The market spoke, » they say from Beijing, rejecting Trump’s duties e Asking Washington a « equal consultation » After the latest US restrictions on trade raised the global markets. In a message published on Facebook on the weekend, the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Guo Jiakun said that « now it is the time that the United States stop acting wrongly and resolve divergences with commercial partners through an equal consultation ». On April 4, China responded with 34 percent duties to the last barriers to the inter -market placed by Washington. On April 2, Trump announced a new 34 percent duty on Chinese imports, which is added to the 25 percent tax applied previously.