Finance
Trump tariffs live updates: The unilateral 10% tariff on imports takes effect
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan President Lai Ching-te met tech executives on Saturday to discuss how to respond to new U.S. tariffs, promising to ensure Taiwan’s global competitiveness and safeguard the island’s interests.
President Donald Trump announced across-the-board import tariffs on Wednesday… The U.S. tariffs, however, do not apply to semiconductors, a major Taiwanese export.
Lai met the executives at his official residence to discuss the response to “the global economic and trade challenges brought about by the reciprocal tariff policy,” his spokesperson Karen Kuo said in a statement.
She did not say which companies were present, only that there were several representatives from the information and communications technology, or ICT, industry.
Lai “hopes to give industry the greatest support, stabilise the economic situation, ensure Taiwan’s industry’s global competitiveness, and safeguard our country’s national interests and the continued steady progress of our economy,” Kuo said.
Taiwan is home to TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker and an important supplier to companies including Apple and Nvidia.
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Viewing insider transactions for Manx Financial Group PLC’s (LON:MFX ) over the last year, we see that insiders were net buyers. This means that a larger number of shares were purchased by insiders in relation to shares sold.
While insider transactions are not the most important thing when it comes to long-term investing, we would consider it foolish to ignore insider transactions altogether.
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The CEO & Director Douglas Grant made the biggest insider purchase in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for UK£245k worth of shares at a price of UK£0.15 each. So it’s clear an insider wanted to buy, even at a higher price than the current share price (being UK£0.14). Their view may have changed since then, but at least it shows they felt optimistic at the time. We always take careful note of the price insiders pay when purchasing shares. As a general rule, we feel more positive about a stock when an insider has bought shares at above current prices, because that suggests they viewed the stock as good value, even at a higher price. Douglas Grant was the only individual insider to buy during the last year.
The chart below shows insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year. If you want to know exactly who sold, for how much, and when, simply click on the graph below!
See our latest analysis for Manx Financial Group
Manx Financial Group is not the only stock insiders are buying. So take a peek at this free list of under-the-radar companies with insider buying.
I like to look at how many shares insiders own in a company, to help inform my view of how aligned they are with insiders. Usually, the higher the insider ownership, the more likely it is that insiders will be incentivised to build the company for the long term. It appears that Manx Financial Group insiders own 36% of the company, worth about UK£6.1m. This level of insider ownership is good but just short of being particularly stand-out. It certainly does suggest a reasonable degree of alignment.
The fact that there have been no Manx Financial Group insider transactions recently certainly doesn’t bother us. But insiders have shown more of an appetite for the stock, over the last year. Insiders do have a stake in Manx Financial Group and their transactions don’t cause us concern. So these insider transactions can help us build a thesis about the stock, but it’s also worthwhile knowing the risks facing this company. Every company has risks, and we’ve spotted 3 warning signs for Manx Financial Group you should know about.
Finance
Trump tariffs live updates: China eases some US tariffs as Trump sows confusion on state of talks
Amid growing tariff uncertainty and shifting economic signals, companies across sectors are rethinking their profit forecasts and recalibrating expectations for the year ahead.
Here’s a list of companies feeling the impact of US tariffs on balance sheets and strategies.
PepsiCo
PepsiCo (PEP) on Thursday cut its annual profit forecast and warned of higher production costs and more volatility from President Donald Trump’s on-again off-again trade tariffs.
“As we look ahead, we expect more volatility and uncertainty, particularly related to global trade developments, which we expect will increase our supply chain costs,” CEO Ramon Laguarta said in a statement.
American Airlines
American Airlines (AAL) withdrew its 2025 financial forecast on Thursday, mirroring its peers, as concerns over discretionary budget amid tariff pressures and government spending uncertainties hinder carriers’ ability to predict travel demand.
Merck
For the full year, Merck (MRK) lowered its earnings outlook slightly, citing an estimated $200 million in additional costs for tariffs implemented to date and a charge related to a licensing deal with Hengrui Pharma.
Hasbro
Hasbro (HAS) reported first-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street estimates, helped by strength in the toymaker’s digital gaming segment, sending the company’s shares up about 4% in premarket trading.
The Play-Doh owner said it would not change its annual forecast given the uncertainty related to tariffs.
Finance
Poll: Gen Z condemns Trump on inflation but sees personal finances improving more than older generations
New data on Gen Z indicates that young Americans are relatively rosy on the economy despite the issues facing their generation — but they are deeply divided when it comes to pressing societal issues, according to results from a new NBC News Stay Tuned Poll, powered by SurveyMonkey.
Three in 10 American adults under 30 years old say their personal financial situation has gotten worse compared to a year ago, and a similar 27% say their personal finances are better today. But while this second number may seem low, members of Gen Z were more likely than older generations to say their personal financial situation has gotten better over the last year. In comparison, only 18% of adults over 65 years old said their finances have gotten better over the last year.
Notably, pluralities of Gen Z registered voters surveyed last year in two waves of the 2024 NBC News Stay Tuned Gen Z poll reported their personal financial situation was worse than the year before, perhaps signaling their discontent toward the Biden administration and struggles with inflation at the time. That generation makes up a growing portion of the U.S. electorate, and it split more closely in the 2024 election than young voters had in years, with a double-digit shift toward Trump among voters under 30 compared to 2020, according to the NBC News exit poll. Male voters under 30 split practically evenly in 2024, the exit poll showed.
Beyond generational divides, the new poll also found different economic attitudes by gender specifically among Gen Z. Pluralities of men and women under 30 said their finances were about the same compared to a year ago, but a third of young men said their personal financial situation was better, compared to 20% of women who said the same.
A plurality of adults across all generations said inflation and the rising cost of living is the economic issue that is the most important to them and their family right now.
Gen Z is emphatic about how they feel the policies of the Trump administration will affect their finances. While majorities across all generations disapprove of the way President Donald Trump is handling inflation and the cost of living, 7 in 10 members of Gen Z disapprove — 14 percentage points higher than the rate of disapproval among the oldest adults surveyed.
Gen Z opposes Trump’s hard-line immigration tactics on college campuses
Gen Z adults are largely unified in opposing how Trump’s hard-line immigration policies have affected college campuses, though there are important differences by party identification.
A full 92% of Gen Z adults believe it is important that people in the United States who hold student visas, work visas and green cards are given due process protections when facing criminal or civil charges. A majority of nearly every demographic said those due process protections are important — including Republicans and those who identify with the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
About a quarter of young adults overall support revoking visas if the government determines a person’s presence in the U.S. would have “adverse foreign policy consequences” — the process the Trump administration has used to initiate deportations of some students over their criticism of and protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza.
Attitudes differ along party lines, though, with a majority (56%) of Gen Z Republicans saying they support the deportations, compared to only 19% of independents and 7% of Democrats.
There were also gender differences: 18% of women said they support the deportations (82% oppose) compared to 30% of men (70% oppose).
Gen Z more liberal across a range of societal issues
The poll finds that Gen Z holds more liberal views than older Americans on a range of social issues. There are key gender and partisan divides among adults under 30, however.
For example, 74% of Gen Z said efforts or programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are helpful to the country, a number that is higher than for any other generation. Within Gen Z, 85% of women think DEI efforts are helpful compared to 63% of men.
Interestingly, these gender numbers barely change when looking at the intersection of gender and education — a variable thought to be the main dividing line in U.S. politics. Roughly 6 in 10 Gen Z men believe these efforts are helpful, regardless of whether they attended college. That compares to roughly 8 in 10 women who think these programs are helpful, also regardless of college attendance.
There is another notable gender divide on the question of traditional gender roles.
A 67% majority of adults under 30 disagree with the statement that America would be stronger if more women held traditional gender roles in society, such as homemaking and raising children. But there’s a 15-point gender gap.
While a majority of young men disagree, 41% agree that women should hold more traditional gender roles, compared to only 26% of young women. Three-quarters of young women disagree, including a 58% majority who said they strongly disagree.
Meanwhile, majorities across all generations agreed that there are only two genders, male and female. Six in 10 Gen Z respondents agreed, the lowest of any generation — again with large gender splits among young adults on this question.
Seven in 10 young men agree with the statement, while around half (51%) of young women agree.
This NBC News Stay Tuned poll was powered by SurveyMonkey, the fast, intuitive feedback management platform where 20 million questions are answered daily. It was conducted online April 11-20 among a national sample of 19,682 adults aged 18 and over, including 2,230 adults ages 18-29. Reported percentages exclude item nonresponse and round to the nearest percentage point. The estimated margin of error for this survey among all adults is plus or minus 2.2 percentage points. The estimated margin of error for this survey among 18-29-year-olds, or Gen Z, is plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.
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