It’s a new month, and a new optimism is pushing up stocks in early trading after a rather dour February. The S&P 500 finished lower in February, as it has done for six of the past 10 years. It’s still up about 1.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the country would impose tariffs on “external” agricultural products, effective from 2nd April. Trump’s latest threat to introduce trade barriers on imported goods was made in a post on his official Truth Social account.

President Donald Trump issued a peculiar message to U.S. farmers after announcing a hefty new tariff on agricultural imports, effective April 2. In a post shared on his social media platform, Trump urged farmers to “have fun'” for the shift,