Stocks in Asia fall after court pauses block on Trump tariffs – business live

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02.27 EDT Introduction: Asian stocks fall after tariffs reinstated News that a federal court had blocked most of Donald Trump’s sweeping trade tariffs helped stock markets rise yesterday. But now that an appeals court has agreed to a temporary pause in the decision, stocks are starting to fall again. In Tokyo, the Nikkei index dropped 1.1%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.5%. The mainland Chinese index the SSE Composite fell 0.3%, while South Korea’s Kospi fell 0.9%. The US dollar has been shaky too, and is now heading for its fifth consecutive monthly decline as investors brace for more...