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More and more Chinese trucks are being powered by batteries, another sign that oil-based fuels are getting shoved to the sidelines in an increasingly electrified economy.

U.S. economic growth will slow to 1.6% this year as President Donald Trump’s erratic trade wars disrupt global commerce, drive up costs and leave businesses and consumers frozen by uncertainty.

U.S. factory activity contracted in May for a third consecutive month and a gauge of imports fell to a 16-year low as firms pulled back in the face of higher tariffs.

Canada’s provincial leaders urged Prime Minister Mark Carney to back new oil pipelines, electricity grids, critical mineral mines, ports and railways at a meeting June 2 meant to identify “nation-building” projects to be fast-tracked.

A group of small businesses that won a ruling that most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal want them blocked during the administration’s appeal.

After the U.S. and China agreed to lower tariffs from astronomical heights, tensions are now surging over access to chips and rare earths. And Beijing increasingly appears to have an edge.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued a statement June 2 rebuking the U.S. president’s claim that Beijing breached the consensus reached in Geneva in May.

The measure would open new opportunities for oil and gas development in the mammoth National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, an Indiana-sized parcel in the northwest of the state.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing to offset the economic pain caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs by compelling Canadian provinces to liberalize trade with one another.

Futures tracking the prices U.S. manufacturers pay for aluminum and steel surged after President Donald Trump said he will double tariffs on the metals this week.