Tag: Trade

Luis Ramos works at the Howard McCray's commercial refrigeration manufacturing facility in Philadelphia.

Beltway Confidential

Manufacturers are overconfident about the economy

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 21, 2018 4:54 pm

President Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting at the G-20 Summit, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Trump expects China to play by the rules on trade

Dan K. Eberhart · December 21, 2018 4:00 pm

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange listen as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is seen on a video screen giving a news conference from Washington after the Fed announced a rate increase, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

The Fed made the right call with rate hikes

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 19, 2018 11:18 pm

Traders with Livermore Securities at the New York Stock Exchange follow the news from the Federal Reserve Board of a rate increase, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.

Wall Street craters on Federal Reserve’s decision to hike interest rates

Joe Williams · December 19, 2018 9:17 pm

China said Tuesday it would take unspecified countermeasures after the US imposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of its exports, raising the prospect of a full-blown trade war.

Beltway Confidential

Forty years after China’s free-market renaissance, Xi is turning back toward ideology and centralized control

Erin Dunne · December 19, 2018 6:40 pm

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin walks over to talk with reporters about trade negotiations with China, at the White House, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in Washington.

China trade talks likely next month, Mnuchin says

Sean Higgins · December 18, 2018 8:33 pm

The largest point loss in history remains Sept. 29, 2008, when the market dropped 778 points. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stock markets tumble as investors fret over the Fed and China trade

Joe Williams · December 17, 2018 9:16 pm

Donald Trump has railed against trade deals being weighed by Congress, blamed China and Japan for costing the U.S. jobs and lamented the quarterly account deficit.

Strategic default: How to roll back China’s weaponization of capital investment

J. Michael Waller · December 17, 2018 5:00 am

Workers assemble a vehicle at the XpengÂ Motors Technology Ltd. prototype center in Guangzhou, China, on Wednesday.

Beltway Confidential

China cut auto tariffs. That doesn’t mean there will be a comprehensive trade deal

Erin Dunne · December 14, 2018 11:31 pm

A beam of sunlight is cast on vehicles on a city ring-road clogged with heavy traffic during the morning rush hour in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.

China to temporarily suspend auto tariffs starting next year

Sean Higgins · December 14, 2018 9:54 pm

Farmer Tim Novotny, of Wahoo, shreds male corn plants in a field of seed corn, in Wahoo, Neb.

Agricultural industry presses Trump to open up EU trade

Sean Higgins · December 14, 2018 7:38 pm

In this May 8, 2018, file photo, Chinese men pass by a ZTE building in Beijing, China.

Trump claims China looking to make ‘big and very comprehensive deal’ with the US

Diana Stancy Correll · December 14, 2018 5:06 pm