Trade
A ‘fundamental regime shift’ could be underway as investors rethink U.S. assets, ECB says
Luis de Guindos, vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB), at a rates decision news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images The European Central Bank on Wednesday said a “fundamental regime change” could be underway in financial markets as investors appear to be reassessing how risky […]
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UK suspends trade talks with Israel over new Gaza offensive
People gather in the yard of the Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital, to mourn and bid farewell to the bodies of victims killed in Israeli bombardment in Gaza City, on March 18, 2025. Majdi Fathi | Nurphoto | Getty Images Britain on Tuesday paused free trade talks with Israel, summoned its […]
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Chinese businesses stick to diversifying away from the U.S. despite trade truce, survey shows
Vessels carrying shipping containers sail near Kwai Tsing Container Terminal in Hong Kong, China, April 23, 2025. Tyrone Siu | Reuters The intense trade war with the U.S. has left lasting scars on Chinese exporters with many looking to diversify away from the U.S., despite the temporary tariff reprieves, a private survey found. Based on […]
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Tariffs or not, a Chinese baby products company is ramping up its U.S. expansion
U.S. births rose by 1% in 2024, with 3.6 million births recorded for the year, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 26: A woman pushes a stroller while walking along the La Jolla coastline at sunset on October, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty […]
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China says U.S. undermined trade talks with Huawei chip warning
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, China’s International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce Li Chenggang, and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, prepare to discuss on the day of a bilateral meeting between the U.S. and China, in Geneva, Switzerland, May 10, 2025. Keystone/eda/martial Trezzini | Via Reuters […]
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Trump wants a ‘one-stop shopping’ deal with South Korea on trade and defense, but there is a cost
U.S. joint military exercise with South Korea in Yeoncheon-gun, South Korea. Getty Images Sharing the costs of hosting U.S. troops in allied countries has been a favorite topic of U.S. President Donald Trump since his first term in the White House. But as more countries try to eke out a deal to escape the spectre […]
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Japan’s Ishiba rules out tax cuts funded by debt issuance
Japan’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan will not resort to tax cuts funded by additional debt issuance, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday, pushing back against political pressure to loosen fiscal policy ahead of an upper house election slated for July. “Japan is seeing interest rates turn positive and its fiscal state is not good,” Ishiba told parliament, […]
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German stocks near record highs — but will a Wall Street comeback spoil the party?
The German DAX index has surged 19% so far this year. Source
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China slaps anti-dumping duties on plastics from US, EU, Japan, Taiwan
Unrecognizable worker at the recycling factory holding a bunch of plastic granules Rgstudio | E+ | Getty Images China on Sunday announced anti-dumping duties as high as 74.9% on imports of POM copolymers, a type of engineering plastic, from the United States, the European Union, Japan and Taiwan. The commerce ministry’s findings conclude a probe […]
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Trump tells Walmart to ‘eat the tariffs’ after retailer warned it will raise prices
People shop at a Walmart in Rosemead, California, on April 11, 2025. Frederic J. Brown | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump blasted Walmart on Saturday after the country’s largest retailer warned this week that it will have to raise prices because of tariffs. “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason […]
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