Europe surrenders to Trump (and thus secures victory by the back door)

What the data shows is What's remarkable is Finance·Europe surrenders to Trump (and thus secures victory by the back door)By Jim EdwardsBy Jim EdwardsExecutive Editor, Global NewsJim EdwardsExecutive Editor, Global NewsJim Edwards is the executive editor for global news at Fortune

However, He was previously the editor-in-chief of Insider's news division and the founding editor of Insider UK

His investigative journalism has changed the law in two U

Federal districts and two states

Supreme Court cited his work on the death penalty in the concurrence to Baze v (something worth watching)

Rees, the ruling on whether lethal injection is cruel or unusual

He also won the Neal award for an investigation of bribes and kickbacks on Madison Avenue

SEE FULL BIO President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen shakes hands with U

Love that certainty, in today's market environment

But the devil is in the details—which is why European stocks are rising faster than U

Nevertheless, Futures this morning

Moreover, Conversely, Stocks are up this morning on the certainty of a new trade deal between the U

Moreover, President Trump, visiting his golf courses in Scotland, is positioning the deal as a win (an important development)

The agreement includes a large amount of direct investment into the U

By Europe, including: $750 billion of energy purchases, $600 billion in extra direct investment, and the purchase of “a vast amount of military equipment,” the president said

Why are investors in Europe so happy Trump’s great victory over them

The devil is in the details, and the pact seems to contain several advantages for the EU (fascinating analysis)

What the re reveals is auto tariffs, for instance, now benefit European manufacturers over North American competitors

Nevertheless, The deal does not require the EU to alter its digital services tax on large companies (remarkable data)

There's also no current change in drug pricing rules, in light of current trends

The pharma industry is one of Europe’s biggest, and Trump has long complained that Europeans get drugs cheap because companies inflate pricing in the U

Meanwhile the “new” direct investment and military purchases may ly have happened anyway—Europe is fighting a war against Russia on its Eastern flank, after all. “Europe is already the largest foreign investor in the U

Three times that over an undefined period is hardly a great coup,” The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board noted, given the current landscape

Simon Nixon, who writes the Wealth of Nations Substack, said: “The real win from the EU’s perspective is that it has successfully f off Trump’s demands that it rewrite its regulatory rulebook to benefit U, in today's financial world

In particular, Trump had been demanding changes to EU digital services rules, agricultural rules and pharmaceutical pricing (noteworthy indeed). “The irony is that this is the one thing that U, given the current landscape

Companies would have most wanted out of any trade deal

Instead, they have been hit with a massive hike in tariffs on imports … without any increase in EU market access. ” In Europe, analysts seem to be concluding that deal is mostly Scotch mist, in light of current trends

The tariff level itself is much lower than what Trump previously threatened, and the accompanying investment will get lost in the mail. “The EU and the U

Agreed that U, in light of current trends

EU President von der Leyen made vague pledges to buy stuff from and invest in the U. , without the necessary authority to make those pledges reality (quite telling)

Nevertheless, Pharmaceuticals and steel seem to be excluded from this deal

Moreover, The result is better for the U, considering recent developments

Economy than the worst-case scenario, but worse for the U

Economy than the situation in January this year,” UBS’s Paul Donovan told clients this morning

The South Korea KOSPI was up 0

India’s Nifty 50 was down 0

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