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Trump returned to the White House on Monday with an ambitious agenda spanning trade reform, immigration, tax cuts and deregulation. He did not target China in his inauguration speech nor did he immediately impose tariffs as previously promised, sparking a relief rally in global stocks and a drop in the dollar.

Donald Trump has officially returned as the President of the United States, and his first day in office was packed with a “historic” flurry of big decisions including ones with potential to change the course of technology as we know it.

Canadians are watching their finances for any impacts as President Donald Trump takes back the reins of government in the United States.

«I do not think that if 2018-19 was the playbook, no country sat back and simply said the ones on which the tariffs were imposed and did nothing. Of course, there will be retaliation,» says Jahangir Aziz, JPMorgan. So, last four years and the coming four years would be different. We all know that. What we need to understand, how different? Jahangir Aziz: You are going to see changes in tariff policy, changes in immigration policy, US tax policy, and deregulation. Now, in our view, the immigration and tariffs would come earlier and the ones on regulation and on tax policy come later, not because there is any such magic sequencing, it is simply because the first two are easier to do through executive orders and the latter two are more difficult to do because it requires legislative changes, that is the way we have been thinking .

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Donald Trump started his new presidential term with an unexpected show of restraint. Just a couple of months ago, Mr Trump had warned that he would announce hefty new levies on his first day back in the White House.

Xi Jinping once looked supreme, unimpeachable and irreproachable. He was perched high upon a pedestal he and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) erected after he became supremo in 2012.

Pashupati Advani, Founder, Global Foray, says the Q-comm space is getting bigger because new players are coming in. The moat is there, but not big enough that people cannot approach it. The quick commerce business is supposedly the new play and Blinkit is very strong in that space. Advani does not know what is going to happen, but it is going to be a bit of slugging, a bit of loss. There was no chance that Zomato would continue to chug along at this kind of pace. Of course, there seems to be a one-time adjustment right now, maybe it was on account that ticketing businesses of Paytm that they acquired. I guess with structural stories like Zomato, it is a factor of how much you want to pay for the business, it is all about valuations. Pashupati Advani: I think Zomato has built a moat, but I do not know if the moat is big enough because there have been a whole bunch of new players that are trying to get in and using price, they are taking away, they are chiselling away some of the market share. As they say, the jury is out. We do not know what is going to happen finally. But this space is here to stay. They are getting more efficient. China has been doing 30-minute deliveries. Probably before Covid they were doing it. So, there is no reason why we cannot do 30-minute deliveries on everything. Zomato is definitely a big player and it is here to be in this space.

TikTok, marking one of his first acts in office.

Asian stocks advanced with US equity futures after President Donald Trump held off from imposing sweeping trade tariffs in his first day in office. Shares climbed from the open in Australia, Japan and South Korea, with the MSCI Asia Pacific Index rising as much as 0.8%. US futures extended their rally from Monday when the cash market was closed. Asian currencies strengthened as Bloomberg’s gauge of the dollar dropped for a second day. Treasuries climbed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As Donald Trump starts his second innings as US president, the world waits with bated breath—and nervously—to see if he will translate his disruptive campaign ideas into action. Mint looks at how his policies could play out for the world’s largest democracy.

Trump victory felt like a bit of a fluke, this time, it’s deadly serious. Donald Trump has come in not only with a comprehensive victory, but at the vanguard of a discernible cultural shift in America.

Donald Trump vowed to embrace trade wars Monday, promising tariffs and taxes on other countries in a nationalistic inaugural address after being sworn in as the 47th president.

Joe Biden's administration released 'Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion', which aims to establish export and security regulations for the global AI market. It divides countries in three groups based on the trust they enjoy with the US. While this is an outgoing US president's rule-making, it reflects behavioural elements of the new Donald Trump administration's transactional foreign policy approach.

the Panama Canal, alleging that China had gained control of the waterway.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he’s told the LCBO to clear U.S. booze from its shelves if Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs as he’s threatened to do.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SINGAPORE—China suggested it was willing to work with Donald Trump to keep TikTok operating in the U.S. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Monday that companies can make their own decisions on operations and acquisitions, a reversal of the government’s previous position that it would block any forced sale of TikTok.

US President- elect Donald Trump has eventually announced plans to issue an executive order which is aimed at postponing a federal ban on TikTok which was implemented due to national security concerns regarding its Chinese ownership, reported Rolling Stone.

Donald Trump will issue a broad trade memo on Monday that stops short of imposing new tariffs on his first day in office but directs federal agencies to evaluate U.S. trade relationships with China, Canada and Mexico, an incoming Trump administration official said, an unexpected development that triggered a dive in the dollar and a rally in global stocks.

Trump will sign an executive order declaring a national energy emergency aimed at boosting U.S. oil and gas production, lowering costs for U.S. consumers and boosting U.S. competitiveness, an official with the incoming White House said on Monday.