The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 10:00 EDT

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/04/08 at 10:00 EDT

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Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world is our. I'm Joe Cummings. The trading day is opened on the North American stock markets, and the early numbers suggest there might be a modest rebound underway. Peter Armstrong has the latest. It's a very different feeling and a very different result on stock markets this morning. Optimism abounds, stocks are climbing.

Now, for all the technical jargon of 200-day moving averages and right-sizing forecast expectations. This is at its core a bet, a bet that a deal to avoid global economic catastrophe will be made. The next round of tariffs was kicking at midnight tonight. So that deal might not be in place by then, but investors seem to be saying they think one is in the works that can stave off economic catastrophe. But we have no way of knowing what that deal might be, what it might look like, what it might take to get it done and how long this might continue. So beware of what traders call a sucker's rally. We're in the midst of a sell off.

They find a reason to declare a bottom stock surge only to go back down again on the first scent of bad news once again. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Meanwhile, the Trump administration's chief trade negotiator is scheduled to appear today before the Senate Finance Committee. Jamison Greer can expect a hostile line of questioning as he's forced to defend a global tariff campaign that's sending economic shockwaves right around the world. Katie Nicholson has more now from Washington. a global tariff campaign that's sending economic shock waves right around the world. Katie

Nicholson has more now from Washington. Katie Nicholson We can expect fireworks. Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell is on the committee. She put forward that bill with Republican Senator Chuck Grassley looking to wrestle the power to enact tariffs back to Congress. And Greer also has to worry about Grassley. He's from Iowa, where a lot of his constituents are really concerned about how these tariffs are going to worry about Grassley. He's from Iowa, where a lot of his constituents are really concerned about how these tariffs are going to impact the agriculture sector. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is also on the committee.

And of course, he has called the way that these tariffs have been implemented illegal and another step toward authoritarianism. Greer is likely going to push the White House line that these tariffs are going to boost the domestic revenue and manufacturing and eliminate that $1.2 trillion trade deficit. Now, in a copy of his prepared remarks for this morning, Greer calls this a moment of drastic overdue change. And it's a message he's going to have to sell amid the backdrop of markets that have shed trillions since the plan was unveiled.

Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. Now, to the election campaign and Conservative leader Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. Now to the election campaign and conservative leader Pierre Poliev, he appeared at a rally last night outside Edmonton where he received the endorsement of a former prime minister. A person who has been right on all the big issues for a decade and a person who has the energy, and yes, the youth, to take us forward into a better, stronger, and more united future. Stephen Harper endorsing Poliev in what was a rare public appearance for the former prime minister.

At the same time, Liberal leader Mark Carney was speaking at a rally in Richmond, B.C. The Americans understand money, lawyers, and Fox News. So we're fighting them with tariffs, we're fighting them in the courts, and as I said last night, I wasn't joking. We sent Doug Ford down onto Fox News to help. And he's doing a damn good job. He's doing a damn good job. As for today, Carney is in Delta, B.C., Poliev's still in the Edmonton area, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is in Vancouver, and Bloc leader Yves-Francois Le Bichette is in Delta B.C., Polyev still in the Edmonton area, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh

is in Vancouver, and Bloc leader Yves-Francois Le Bichette is in Ottawa. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says his troops have captured two Chinese fighters serving with Russia in eastern Ukraine. Here's Zelensky speaking through an interpreter. I understand that we are a strong country, but we cannot fight multiple countries at the same time, all of whom want something on our land. Zelensky calls it an important development that he needs to discuss with Ukraine's allies, and he's hoping it will prompt a further discussion about the war in Ukraine with the United States.

And that is A World This Hour. For news anytime, go to our website cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.