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European stock futures are down, and the Mexican peso is weakening on the back of tariff announcements by Trump. Investors remain wary as they continue to wade through tariff policies, while the Fed shows no urgency to cut interest rates.

Domestic issues are the headlines today. Firstly, we’ve just had the UK inflation data, which unexpectedly slowed in February to 2.8%, versus an estimated 3%.

Chinese shares were down overnight, with a widely watched gauge of Chinese technology shares in Hong Kong slumping as much as 3.9%—the most in three weeks.