The ‘Dirty 15’ countries braced for harder hit from Trump’s tariffs as world prepares for ‘Liberation Day’

The lack of certainty and the shroud of secrecy has been driving the market insane,

Freedom Capital chief global strategist Jay Woods told CNBC

Europe has always been on the side of negotiation and calming things down, because trade wars, you know, only produce losers,

Ferracci told RMC radio

Karoline Leavittpress secretary

He's with his trade and tariff team right now perfecting it to make sure this is a perfect deal for the American people and the American worker and you will all find out from about 24 hours from now,

Leavitt said

Then we can make some determinations, but at this stage in the game, it's unknown to us

the South Dakota Republican said

I really relish giving my Republican colleagues the chance to not just say they're concerned, but actually take an action to stop these tariffs,

he said

Very simply, it's if they charge us, we charge them,

the US President said in February, shortly before he ordered officials to develop such a plan

They’re always thinking of the politics of it,

Pippa said

There’s been a clear rotation out of US stocks this year, and into Europe,

Graeme said

I just don’t see how they could change that,

Pippa said

We’ve had plenty of volatility already this year, partly because many analysts were complacent about how disruptive Trump would be,

said Graeme Wearden, who runs the Guardian’s daily business liveblog

They’ve been aiming at an exemption ever since Trump was inaugurated,

Pippa, the Guardian’s political editor, said – one key reason that Peter Mandelson, a trade expert, was appointed as US ambassador

We may have, short term, a little pain. People understand that.”

And last month, of the tariffs on Canada and Mexico, he said

They remain hopeful he’ll row back quickly because they say a trade deal is ready to go,

she added

There’s what we would call kind of the ‘dirty 15,’ and they have substantial tariffs.”

He added

What’s going to happen on April 2: Each country will receive a number that we believe that represents their tariffs. For some countries it could be quite low. For some countries it could be quite high.”

In an interview with Fox News last month, Bessent said

The bottom line is in the face of uncertainty that's flirting at levels that we haven't seen since the pandemic or the financial crisis, you need to be diversified,

said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Cresset Capital

We are at a very tenuous spot, being at the bottom of a corrective trading range ... that leaves us poised for either a very sharp bounce or a scary breakdown,

Sosnick said

Ideally, we just get one number and then we can figure out the downstream impact,

said Sonu Varghese, global macro strategist at Carson Group

I can't recall a situation where the stakes were this high and yet the outcome was so unpredictable,

said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers

I think the market is really holding its breath,

said Mark Spindel, chief investment officer at Potomac River Capital LLC, who expects the so-called fear gauge to climb toward 30, a level associated with a high degree of risk aversion