
The John Lothian News Daily Update
Friday, April 4, 2025 - John Lothian News Daily Podcast
<p>The John Lothian News Daily Podcast for April 4, 2025, opened with a focus on the futures industry's opposition to transaction taxes. John Lothian explained that such taxes would raise costs, widen bid-ask spreads, and damage market liquidity—drawing a parallel to the broader economic frictions caused by tariffs imposed by Donald Trump’s administration. Trump's new 25% tariff on European beer imports, highlighted in a Financial Times report, blindsided brewers like AB InBev, Heineken, and Molson Coors, with warnings of job losses and brewery closures across Europe.</p> <p>Further analysis from the Financial Times’ Ian Harnett warned that Trump’s "weaponiz...

