‘Beautiful’ Trump tariffs drag CEO confidence down for third straight time

Published June 12, 2019 2:45pm ET



The third straight drop in the sales outlook for America’s largest corporations shows that beauty, at least when it comes to U.S. tariffs, really is in the eyes of the beholder.

CEOs surveyed through June found the duties considerably less attractive than President Trump, who has praised the levies on both Twitter and CNBC as a valuable tool for wresting concessions from U.S. trade partners.

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