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Japan was also in the firing line on Monday.The US president accused the country of currency manipulation, and hinted he might respond with tariffs. Trump said other countries are deliberately pushing down the value of their currencies to give their economies a competitive advantage. He singled out Japan and China. Trump said he had phoned Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese leaders. He said he told them that they can't continue to devalue their currencies against the dollar because it's unfair to the US. Trump said the easy solution for...

(Bloomberg) -- From China’s artificial-intelligence successes to Dubai’s immigrant-led boom and rising prospects of debt restructuring in Venezuela and Lebanon, the winning emerging-market trades of 2025 all help investors withstand President Donald Trump’s trade agenda. Such selective trades are protecting investors from the unpredictability of Trump’s second term because they aren’t reliant on exports to the US, interest-rate cuts or a weak dollar. While benchmark indexes across stocks, bonds and currencies in developing markets have had the best start in years, the end of February brought a selloff, triggered by yet another...