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Mar 2025
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Tariff Volatility Roils Markets

Steve Saretsky
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Tariff volatility continues, freezing business investment. Housing slump deepens in Vancouver & Toronto. Germany unveils the fiscal bazooka, along with China. Political tensions rise. 

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