Tag: Trade

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

President Trump, center, speaks as he announces a revamped North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. The new deal, reached just before a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S., will be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.

Congressional resistance to Trump’s trade deal is bipartisan, but also fractured

Sean Higgins · December 14, 2018 5:01 am

Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank, USA, Phil Gramm participates in a panel discussion 'USA in the World 2020: Still Number One?' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday Jan. 28, 2005.

Beltway Confidential

Economy needs, if not an ounce, at least a Gramm of prevention

Quin Hillyer · December 13, 2018 10:12 pm

In this April 26, 2018, photo, a robot entertains visitors at the booth of a Chinese automaker during the China Auto 2018 show in Beijing, China. Under President Xi Jinping, a program known as "Made in China 2025" aims to make China a tech superpower by advancing development of industries that in addition to semiconductors includes artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals and electric vehicles.

China to revamp industrial policy

Sean Higgins · December 13, 2018 2:03 pm