US trade policy, tariffs, export controls, and their effects on businesses and markets
Nearly every corner of the stock market got slammed on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve sounded more concerned about the outlook for inflation , in part because of the fiscal and trade policies the in...
The Federal Reserve is getting more worried about inflation. And measures that might be taken by the incoming administration are exacerbating some of its concerns. The central bank hiked its 2025 core...
Financial markets reacted decisively the morning after President-elect Donald Trump’s and congressional Republicans’ electoral successes as investors scrambled to price in a litany of potential policy...
Nia Warfield and Jack Raines run through this week’s market maze as Amazon plans to build a supercomputer, the US and China trade war enters a new chapter, and weight-loss drugs keep getting more pote...
Mexico is used to balancing a finicky relationship with its northern neighbor. As it braces for a second Trump term, it might be better positioned than ever to play hardball. Having a neighbor like th...
Make America Grow Again? The Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, a gauge of farmer sentiment, surged to a 3.5-year high in November in the wake of the US election. Most of the improvement in this i...
*Before he becomes president in 2025. Cox Automotive is predicting that electric-vehicle sales will soar this month, as prospective buyers take advantage of federal tax credits that President-elect Do...
In a Truth Social post on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to impose sweeping new tariffs on its top three importers as soon as he takes office, promising 25% tariffs on all products from Me...
The S&P 500 rose 0.6% to finish at an all-time closing high. The Nasdaq 100 also gained 0.6%, while the Russell 2000 slumped 0.7%. The strong performance for the benchmark US stock gauge came despite ...
The big stock-market news of the day is what’s not happening. After President-elect Donald Trump posted messages on Truth Social warning Canada, Mexico, and China that they’d face across-the-board tar...
Automakers and are getting buffeted Monday by President-elect Donald Trump’s tweeted tariff threats Tuesday against Mexico, Canada, and China. It makes sense, seeing as the companies’ vehicles are c...
Donald Trump announced his plans to slap a 25% tariff on all goods imported to the US from Canada and Mexico, going against the trade deal his first administration brokered. Trump said in a Truth Soci...
The S&P 500 rose slightly and briefly touched closing record-high levels in early trading on Tuesday, despite a couple Truth Social posts from President-elect Donald Trump threatening to slap 25% tari...
President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday he would impose an additional 10% tariff on goods coming in from China. Ostensibly that’s bad news for , which makes the vast majority of its products in Ch...
China is scrapping a tax rebate for domestic commodity exporters, sending the prices of some of those raw materials — in particular, aluminum — soaring. The Ministry of Finance said that an export-tax...
China’s trade surplus is hitting record highs, with customs data from the world’s second-largest economy showing that its export-heavy economy is more export-heavy than ever before. The difference bet...
One of the more interesting stories to watch as Trump prepares to reenter the Oval Office is the fate of TikTok in the United States. In April, President Biden signed a law that would ban Chinese-owne...
Former President Donald Trump won a second round at the presidency, and among the Biden-era initiatives potentially on the chopping block is the Inflation Reduction Act and the billions in capital it’...
We need only remember back a mere 2,918 days , shortly past midnight following the 2016 election, to see price action like we’re seeing now. And, as it happens, for the same reasons. Donald Trump’s vi...
In August, I wrote about how Chinese fast-fashion retailers Shein and Temu had taken advantage of a particular part of US tariff regulations, the “de minimis” loophole, to ship tariff-free goods to US...