Attempts to use the US Navy to block Russia's trade would amount to a declaration of war, a high-ranking senator commented on the US internal secretary's idea of impeding Russia's energy trade through a blockade.
(Bloomberg) -- China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries fell to a six-month low in July, just as a trade war between the world's two largest economies began heating up.
is getting taken to the woodshed by Big 45 in trade negotiations...While the mainstream media liked to refer to deceased warmonger John "Songbird' McCain as a maverick, President Donald Trump is the real maverick on the global stage. Cucked Cana
Global auto sales are in the midst of the first sustained slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis, according to new figures published by the WSJ. This complicates an already precarious situation for automakers, who have also been negatively affected
Stocks jumped on Monday as the United States and Mexico closed a new trade deal, potentially removing a source of uncertainty that had been plaguing investors for months.
In a hastily arranged Oval Office conference with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto joining by speakerphone Trump announced that he is terminating NAFTA as it now stands and entering a different deal with Mexico, and possibly Canada if they want t
The Trump administration is close to striking a deal with Mexico on a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement, analysts said, but thorny issues are yet to be resolved with Canada, the third party in the trilateral pact.
At one minute after midnight, the first round of renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran took effect, and in one of his earliest tweets since the presidential campaign, at 5:30am EDT, a sleepless Trump blasted out the "official" US position on countries that
Last month we showed that as Trade Wars began in April, the world's central banks and other official institutions dumped more Treasuries than in any month since January 2016, some $48.3BN, perhaps over concerns of others selling first, and precipitat
One of the key features of Trump's newly proposed $200BN in 10% tariffs on Chinese exports, is that Beijing simply has no way to retaliate proportionately: after all the US does not export that much to China. That does not mean that Beijing is limite
In a sudden surge, out of the recent ranges, Wholesale sales soared 2.5% MoM in May - the biggest jump since March 2011 - suggesting pre-emptive buying ahead of Trump's tariffs (as opposed to a new trend).
Farm Products and Computers saw big sales
Rumors that US companies have been experiencing unspecified "difficulties and delays" while trying to get their goods through customs in China have been circulating for weeks - ever since reports surfaced alleging that Chinese officials had warned US
Whether this is a coordinated response is unclear - and certainly on a much smaller scale - but Bloomberg reports that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree this morning imposing higher tariffs on U.S. products in retaliation for U.S
BEIJING, July 6 (Reuters) - Some major Chinese ports delayed clearing goods from the United States on Friday, four sources said, potentially disrupting imports worth billions of dollars as the world's top two economies head towards an outright trade
Washington (AFP) - Steep American tariffs on Chinese goods worth tens of billions of dollars are due to take effect at midnight Thursday, as US President Donald Trump fires the decisive salvo in a trade war between the world's top two economies.
America is in a funk. Slipping into an economic and cultural morass and at risk of losing its footing on the global chessboard, American workers find themselves working harder than ever and still falling further and further behind. How can this be?
I swear, if I hear one more major-network American TV debater (they pretend to be "interviewers," but they're not interested in helping facilitate any Trump administration "guest's"
All hell broke loose at the G6+1, aka G7, while the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) aimed at global integration and a peaceful multipolar order...
Update: It appears the message has come down from the top - go after Canadian PM Trudeau at all costs as following Trump's top economic adviser Larry Kudlow's outburst this morning about Trudeau's "betrayal"..."he stabbed us in the back..."