Markets Drop After Trump's Top Economic Adviser Quits

Trade war fears pushed global stock markets lower Wednesday following the resignation of U.S. President Donald Trump's top economic adviser. Gary Cohn was a leading administration opponent of Trump's plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imports. In Wednesday's early U.S. trading, the Dow was off seven-tenths of a percent, the S & P 500 fell a bit less than that.  At the close of Asian trading, Hong Kong fell one...

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