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Global Finance Chiefs Told Trade Tensions Are Hitting Confidence

Trade tensions between the United States and China risk eroding business and investor confidence, even as global growth enjoys its best upswing in years.

April 20, 2018
Government, Business

Fed Economists Say Tariffs More Likely to Kill Than Create Jobs

U.S. President Donald Trump may hope his tariffs on imported steel and aluminum will create new jobs, or at least protect existing ones. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said the opposite outcome was more likely.

April 19, 2018
Business, Logistics, TCA

Everybody Loses in Trade War, Canadian Chamber of Commerce President Says

President Donald Trump has tweeted ā€œtrade wars are good, and easy to win. Don’t believe it, the president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce told Tampa business and political leaders April 18.

April 19, 2018
Government, Business

Trucking Industry Leaders Join Trump to Tout Tax Reform

A trucking executive and truck driver joined President Donald Trump at the podium during an April 12 White House Rose Garden event held to discuss the effects the tax reform law passed by Congress in December had on businesses.

April 12, 2018
Government, Business

Stock Selloff Deepens Amid Trump Trade Jabs

The selloff in U.S. stocks deepened April 6 as the White House’s latest trade bluster rattled global financial markets.

April 6, 2018
Government, Business, Logistics

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Says There’s ā€˜Level of Risk’ of US-China Trade War

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said there is ā€œa level of riskā€ that the tariff dispute between the United States and China will erupt into a full-scale trade war, though he’s ā€œcautiously optimisticā€ that the world’s two largest economies will resolve differences through negotiations.

April 6, 2018
Government, Business, Logistics

Trump Says He’ll Take ā€˜Very Serious Look’ at Amazon’s Business

President Donald Trump said he will take a ā€œvery serious lookā€ at Amazon and what he said is an ā€œuneven playing fieldā€ the retailer enjoys against competitors.

April 6, 2018
Government, Business, Logistics

China Vows to Fight Trump Tariffs ā€˜to the End’ as Tension Rises

President Donald Trump said the current trade spat with China may hurt the markets in the short term but that America will emerge stronger from it, as a confrontation that has roiled global equities heats up between the world’s largest economies.

April 6, 2018
Government, Business

Republicans Warn Trump a Trade War Risks Party’s Chances in November

Republicans are warning President Donald Trump that a trade war with China would deal an economic blow to politically important areas of the country that will cost the party in November’s congressional elections.

April 5, 2018
Government, Business

Trade Fight Expected to Add Risk but Not Sink US Economy

The latest tariff salvos between the United States and China have brought a trade war closer to reality. It’s a risk that the world’s biggest economy is well-positioned to ride out.

April 4, 2018