2025-06-04
26 分钟Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm David Harper and coming up in just a moment we'll be asking why global markets are hitting record highs despite increasing uncertainty about the direction of the world's largest economy,
the United States,
and we'll also find out what effect some of President Trump's tariffs are likely to have in the US.
It certainly is going to have an indirect effect on the price of really any item that has a substantial steel or aluminum component,
which is washing machines, you know, motor vehicles.
And also as Bulgaria edges closer to joining the Eurozone,
we'll find out why some Bulgarians aren't entirely sure if they want to.
Well, first of all, for the last few months on World Business Report,
we've been talking almost constantly, it sometimes seems, about trade tariffs.
Since President Trump returned to the White House, we've seen a series of announcements,
some targeting specific countries, some targeting specific products and some targeting,
well, pretty much everyone.
The way in which these have been brought in, introduced,
then raised, then lowered, then sometimes paused several times,
has brought further uncertainty with businesses the world over having to try to second guess
if and how and indeed when tariffs will affect them.
Well, set to this background,
you would expect markets across the globe to be in a desperate situation, but they're not.
In fact, globally, they've hit a record high.