US trade policy, tariffs, export controls, and their effects on businesses and markets
S&P 500 futures careened lower on Thursday evening after President Donald Trump suggested that he’s mulling blanket tariffs of 15% to 20% (versus the current 10%) in an NBC interview . That was shortl...
Tucked into President Trump’s tax bill , which was singed into law last week, is $6 billion allocated for “border security, technology and screening,” a key piece of his administration’s plan to restr...
began the year saying that it had the potential to be its best fiscal year in a century. That dream fizzled out within three months amid “ uncertainty around global trade .” The airline reported its s...
President Trump announced plans on Tuesday to introduce a 50% tariff on copper imports in a bid to boost national production of the metal, sending US copper prices up 13% to an all-time high of ~$5.69...
As the threat of tariffs looms over the pharmaceutical industry, it appears isn’t taking any chances with its top revenue driver. As of May of this year, the US has imported nearly 3x as many peptide...
In a Truth Social post Sunday night, President Trump warned that any country supporting the “Anti-American policies of BRICS” would face an additional 10% tariff, with “no exceptions.” The threat foll...
Suddenly it sounds a lot more like early April, with high tariffs being bandied about and stocks moving lower. But as President Trump sent letters to different countries informing them what rate their...
Japanese car companies are trading lower on Monday following President Trump’s proposed 25% tariff on goods from Japan and South Korea. Shares of , , , and other major automakers from the US’s fifth-l...
President Trump threatened new 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea early Monday afternoon, worsening what had been a run-of-the-mill market sell-off for the . The slump gathered pace after the presid...
Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the, if not the best, sources for information and analysis on trade and capital flows, charted the difference between Presiden...
Semiconductor stocks are in the red on the heels of a report from Bloomberg that the Trump administration is cracking down on China’s ability to access AI chips via Malaysia and Thailand by curbing th...
A couple of US semiconductor-adjacent companies are jumping on Thursday amid thawing on a contentious front in the US-China trade war: advanced technology. and are surging after the Commerce Departme...
US stocks steadily gained throughout the day, buoyed by US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a trade deal with Vietnam. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% to close at a record high, the Nasdaq 100 gained 0....
shares were up as much as 4% upon US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new trade agreement with key manufacturing partner Vietnam. It then gave back all of those gains after he shared the det...
EV maker ticked down Wednesday after posting disappointing second-quarter production and delivery totals. Rivian, squeezed by tariff costs and stiffer competition because of rivals’ big incentives, d...
The second quarter may have been filled with stock-shaking tariff announcements, but automakers have reaped the benefits of panic buying. and released Q2 sales figures on Tuesday, and both Detroit c...
and are both down on Tuesday as investors watch Senate Republicans work feverishly to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday told reporters that Re...
It appears CEO Elon Musk has sufficiently poked the bear — again. President Donald Trump took to his social media platform in the middle of the night to criticize Musk’s government subsidies , threat...
A quarter that started with US stocks falling out of bed ended with the S&P 500 booking a double-digit gain amid more signs of progress on agreements that may help avoid trade wars flaring up again. T...
The Senate’s newly released version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” might be even worse news for and the rest of the electric vehicle industry than the initial one. Rather than eliminating...