Trade
Pandora warns U.S. tariffs will spark sweeping jewelry price increases
A charm bracelet on display in a Pandora store in Copenhagen, Denmark. Bloomberg | Getty Images Danish jewelry brand Pandora has warned of significant price increases across the affordable jewelry industry if U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed tariff hikes come into play following the White House’s 90-day pause on the levies announced in April. CEO […]
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Novo Nordisk cuts 2025 guidance as drug copycats hit Wegovy sales, posts first-quarter profit beat
Flags with the logos of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, maker of the blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss treatments Ozempic and Wegovy are pictures while the company presents the annual report at Novo Nordisk in Bagsvaerd, Denmark, on February 5, 2025. Mads Claus Rasmussen | Afp | Getty Images Novo Nordisk on Wednesday reported a better-than-expected rise in […]
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Trump officials to meet with Chinese counterparts on trade, economic matters
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2025. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, and top trade official Jamieson Greer will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland […]
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Trump belittles Canada before Carney meeting: ‘We don’t need ANYTHING they have’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday sharply questioned the United States’ trade relationship with Canada just minutes before he was scheduled to meet Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House. Trump said on Truth Social that he was looking forward to meeting and working with Carney, but that he “cannot understand” why the U.S. […]
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Trump trade tariffs slump widens to ‘nearly all U.S. exports,’ supply chain data shows
An empty container ship of COSCO Shipping sails to a container terminal in Qingdao in east China’s Shandong province Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images What began as a rapid drop in U.S. imports as shippers cut orders from manufacturing partners around the world has now extended into a […]
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Fashion retailer Hugo Boss shares pop 5% on better-than-feared first-quarter sales
A Hugo Boss store in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Hugo Boss jumped on Tuesday after it posted a lower-than-feared decline in first-quarter sales and reiterated its full-year guidance despite macroeconomic and tariff uncertainty. The high-end German retailer said revenues fell 2% on a currency adjusted basis […]
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Temu and Shein face massive tariffs. But don’t count them out of the U.S. e-tail scene, experts say
Photo illustration of the Shein app on the App Store reflected in the Temu logo. Stefani Reynolds | Afp | Getty Images The closure of a trade loophole and prohibitive tariffs on China have upended Temu and Shein’s business model in the United States. And yet the e-commerce companies are likely to remain a dominant […]
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Trump says U.S. girls ‘could be very happy’ with lots fewer dolls under new tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the media aboard Air Force One as he flies from West Palm Beach, Florida en route to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on May 4, 2025, returning to the White House after spending the weekend in Florida. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump again is […]
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Hollywood studio stocks briefly fall after Trump proposes foreign film tariff
The famed Hollywood sign is viewed on September 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Investors in Hollywood’s top studios and streaming services were trying to make sense Monday of President Donald Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on movies made overseas. Shares of Netflix, Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery briefly fell […]
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Trump announces 100% tariff for movies produced outside U.S.
The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2024 Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday a 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States, saying the U.S. movie industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers. “This […]
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