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Tariff Risk Hangs Over East Europe's Trump-Driven Rally
Mint Hyderabad
|February 10, 2025
With the European Union in the White House crosshairs for trade levies, market gains look precarious
Lauded as "tough" and "smart" by President Donald Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orban is among the eastern European leaders hoping that allegiance to the US will translate into deals and economic gains. Instead, they may find their financial markets cannot escape the wider fallout of a US-Europe trade war.
The region is a testing ground of sorts for the view that Trump's good graces can buffer a country's stock and currency markets in the face of turbulence elsewhere. Such hopes lifted Hungarian stocks to record highs immediately after Trump's election win, while shares in Budapest-listed telecommunications firm 4iG Nyrt. soared after its chief executive accompanied the premier on his visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion.
This story is from the February 10, 2025 edition of Mint Hyderabad.
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