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US: Wall Street ends lower as White House says Trump to implement tariffs
US stocks ended lower on Friday (Jan 31), with indices losing ground after the White House said US President Donald Trump will implement…
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Ahead of Possible Tariffs, No Rush to Get Goods In From Canada and Mexico
Companies in the United States do not appear to be making a concerted effort to rush in shipments from Mexico and Canada ahead of the high…
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What Trump’s Tariffs Could Mean for Your Utility Bill
Gordon, now CEO of California Forward, a group pressing for more sustainable and resilient economic development in that state, agrees.…
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Trump’s Tariffs Wars Are About to Cost a Very Important Republican
“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER,” Trump posted on Truth…
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The World Economy Awaits Trump’s First Round of Tariffs
President Trump’s threats to enact stiff tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday have left the world trading system on edge as…
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Why There’s Nowhere to Hide From Trump’s Tariffs
President Trump has promised to impose 25 percent tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico starting on Saturday, a vow that’s roiling…
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High Inflation and New Tariffs Will Make the Fed’s Job Tougher
High inflation is stoking fresh debate about how the Federal Reserve should respond to President Trump’s sweeping plans to reorder the…
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Trump Says He Could Impose 25% Tariffs on Canadian and Mexican Goods as Early as Saturday
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that his plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico will go into…
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Tell Us How Tariffs on Goods From China Will Affect Your Business
China is the world’s factory floor. From high-end digital devices to inexpensive tchotchkes, many of the products that are bought and sold…
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China’s big EV push into Europe fizzles out on tariffs, slowdown
FIVE years of rapid European growth for Chinese electric-car manufacturers ground to a halt in 2024, as trade barriers added to the…
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Lutnick Grilled on Trump’s Tariffs and China During Confirmation Hearing
Howard Lutnick, a wealthy donor to President Trump who has been chosen to lead the Commerce Department, defended Mr. Trump’s plans to…
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Oil prices settle down as US stockpile grows, tariffs still in focus
OIL prices fell on Wednesday (Jan 29), with the US benchmark settling at its lowest year to date, after domestic crude stockpiles in the…
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Trump’s Tariffs Scramble Fed’s Interest Rate Calculus
The Federal Reserve’s efforts to orchestrate a “soft landing” for the United States economy are facing a torrent of uncertainty as the…
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G.M. Has Plans Ready for Trump’s Canada and Mexico Tariffs
General Motors executives are closely tracking President Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, but the…
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Carmakers take action against EU tariffs on e-cars from China
A pedestrian crosses a street that borders a cycle path and a charging parking lot for electric cars in Stuttgart's city center. Marijan…
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Trump Threatens Tariffs Over Immigration, Drugs and Greenland
In his first week in office, President Trump tried to browbeat governments across the world into ending the flow of drugs into America,…
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Even the Respectable Argument for Trump’s Tariffs Is Dead Wrong
Furman was less skeptical. “My guess is he has some study,” he told me. “I would have guessed 5 percent, and I recently asked a few top…
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Chinese EV makers file challenges to tariffs at EU court
CHINESE electric vehicle makers BYD, Geely and SAIC have challenged the EU’s import tariffs at the Court of Justice of the European Union…
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BMW joins Chinese EV makers in filing EU court challenge to tariffs
BMW has joined Chinese producers in filing a challenge at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) against EU tariffs on…
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Trump Just Took His Tariffs Threat to a Catastrophic Level
If one bird is infected, farms are required by law to cull the entire flock. Axios reported Tuesday that in the previous 30 days, the bird…
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Tariffs will leave everyone worse off, Bundesbank chief warns
GERMANY’S top central bank warned against trade levies, a day after US President Donald Trump reiterated a call for the European Union to…
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Trumps Threatens Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
When President Trump refrained from immediately imposing new tariffs on his first day in office, as he had previously threatened, business…
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Taking Trump’s Tariffs Threats Seriously and Literally
Is Trump bluffing? President Trump’s tariff threats have perplexed and rankled foreign leaders and C.E.O.s for some time now as they fear…
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Trump Says He Will Impose 10% Tariffs on Chinese Imports on Feb. 1
President Trump said on Tuesday that he intended to impose a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports into the United States on Feb. 1, a…