CNBC Daily Open: Trump tariffs heading to the U.S. Supreme Court might just be the start of a long legal battle

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attends a property league astatine authorities quarters Rosenbad aft the commercialized talks betwixt the U.S. and China concluded, successful Stockholm, Sweden, July 29, 2025.

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Even if the U.S. Supreme Court agrees with a national appeals court's ruling that most of President Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, it doesn't mean the lawsuit is closed connected those levies.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly told Reuters connected Monday that determination are "other authorities that tin beryllium used" to uphold the tariffs. One of them could beryllium the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Bessent said.

(A funny broadside note: Smoot-Hawley is described by an nonfiction connected the U.S. Senate website arsenic "among the astir catastrophic acts successful legislature history.")

Since markets successful the U.S. were closed for the Labor Day vacation connected Monday, they didn't person a accidental to respond to some Bessent's remark and the court's ruling, which was announced aft the doorbell connected Friday.

For now, futures tied to U.S. stocks were little changed Monday nighttime stateside. Investors could person gotten utilized to the volatile quality of Trump tariffs and are taking a wait-and-see approach.

No point, aft all, to hole for an result that mightiness pb to the commencement of different ineligible battle. It's ne'er implicit till it's implicit — it's conscionable different time in Trump's America.

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Bessent expects the Supreme Court to uphold Trump tariffs. And if they are struck down by the court, "there are tons of other authorities that tin beryllium used," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said connected Monday, Reuters reported.

Trump said India had offered to region tariffs connected U.S. However, helium did not elaborate connected the claim. Trump besides said Monday that commercialized ties with India is "a wholly 1 sided disaster!" His comments came aft Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China for a information summit.

Takeaways from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. The two-day lawsuit was mostly seen arsenic a showcase of Beijing's propulsion for a caller satellite order. Key developments include: thawing India-China relations, a Xi-Putin-Modi troika, AI concern and a caller improvement bank.

Asia-Pacific markets commercialized mixed Tuesday. South Korea's Kospi scale rose astir 0.8% arsenic the country's ostentation successful August came successful little than expected. U.S. banal futures were mostly flat. On Monday, U.S. markets were closed for Labor Day.

[PRO] A Chinese spot banal defying the slump. The institution has "already returned much superior than they ever raised from superior markets," wrote Barclays — and its banal has an implied upside of implicit 40% from the bank's terms target.

And finally...

Sports nine Suzhou Shishan opened the Chinese city's archetypal pickleball tribunal successful January 2024, according to the company.

Suzhou Shishan

Pickleball is conscionable getting started successful China

Online income of pickleball paddles and related instrumentality successful China person skyrocketed this twelvemonth to an mean of $1.2 cardinal successful monthly income arsenic of July — an summation of much than six-fold versus the year-ago period, according to information from WPIC Marketing + Technologies.

Pickleball's caller maturation successful China has antithetic concern implications. In opposition to U.S. suburbs, large Asian cities don't thin to person ample vicinity spaces, said Patrick Yan, laminitis of an bureau representing Asian pickleball players. "All these courts person to beryllium built by radical moving businesses. They're operating for profit."

— Evelyn Cheng

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