TRADE WARS

News About World Trade

7,450 articles

Facebook-backed Libra appoints chief executive
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
Levey, who has most recently been chief legal officer at HSBC Holdings, will lead the group founded by Facebook to manage a global digital payments system. Leve...
Stocks advance as virus restrictions are eased
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
While a string of data highlighted the calamity visited upon the global economy by COVID-19, a slowdown in both infections and deaths in some nations is allowin...
Grim and getting worse: US set for historic unemployment surge
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
In the US economy, skyrocketing unemployment is the most-visible sign of the devastation: almost overnight, at least 30 million workers lost their jobs. The Apr...
EU faces historic recession as China, US spar over virus origins
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
The grim prediction from Brussels came as Germany -- Europe's biggest economy -- unveiled plans for a near-return to normality, with fresh data revealing the ex...
US warns of 'consequences' if China abandons trade deal
May 04, 2020 (AFP)
The comments come amid a sharp drop in global trade caused by the coronavirus pandemic as well as a dispute between the two powers over fault for the spread of ...
Equities tumble in Asia as Trump revives trade war fears
May 04, 2020 (AFP)
Claims by the US president and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the disease started in a lab in Wuhan, and that those responsible would be held to account, o...
Equities tumble as Trump revives trade war fears
May 04, 2020 (AFP)
Claims by the US president and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the disease started in a lab in Wuhan, and that those responsible would be held to account, o...
Hong Kong economy shrinks record 8.9% in first quarter
May 04, 2020 (AFP)
The financial hub is now experiencing its third-straight quarter of negative growth -- its longest financial downturn since the aftermath of the 2008 global fin...
Macau's casino takings almost wiped out by pandemic impact
May 01, 2020 (AFP)
Figures from the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau showed gross gaming revenue of 754 million patacas ($95 million) last month -- a drop of 97 percent f...
Chinese factory activity slows in face of global pandemic
Apr 30, 2020 (AFP)
While the country ramps up economic production as daily life slowly gets back to normal following weeks of strict lockdown measures, its crucial markets in the ...
EU, China and others kick off workaround for stalled WTO appeals body
Apr 30, 2020 (AFP)
The participants in the arrangement formally notified the World Trade Organization Thursday that the temporary appeals mechanism had entered into force. The "in...
Equities extend gains as lockdowns are eased but dealers cautious
Apr 29, 2020 (AFP)
Traders brushed off more data showing the gaping hole being blown in the global economy that is also seeing companies either pull their earnings reports or prov...
US cites Amazon's foreign platforms over counterfeit goods
Apr 29, 2020 (AFP)
The US Trade Representative's office placed Amazon on the list of retail operations under scrutiny for intellectual property protection. As part of its annual r...
HSBC profits halved as virus batters global economy
Apr 28, 2020 (AFP)
The lender reported pre-tax profits of $3.2 billion, down 48 percent from the same period in 2019, citing credit losses from clients struck by the economic slow...
EU commissioner slams Europe's 'morbid dependency' on China
Apr 19, 2020 (AFP)
"This crisis has revealed our morbid dependency on China and India as regards pharmaceuticals," Jourova said in a debate on Czech state television. "This is som...
Asia virus latest: India curbs foreign takeovers; Japanese tulips snipped
Apr 19, 2020 (AFP)
- India curbs 'opportunistic takeovers' of firms - India has increased restrictions on direct foreign investment to curb "opportunistic" takeovers and acquisiti...
Virus hands China its first economic contraction in decades
Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)
Gross domestic product shrank 6.8 percent in the January-March quarter from the same period a year earlier, according to figures released by the National Bureau...
Could virus crisis kill debt-laden US Postal Service?
Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)
But as with many ordinary things as the coronavirus crisis unfolds, the US Postal Service - already compromised by a mountain of debt - has a most uncertain fut...
Trump lays out gradual reopening of US as China faces virus fire
Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)
Trump's new push came as he saw progress in his campaign to pressure China, with fellow Western leaders agreeing that Beijing has not been transparent on the or...
China suffers historic contraction as virus paralyses economy
Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)
Gross domestic product in the world's second-largest economy fell 6.8 percent in January-March from a year earlier, according to government figures -- a stunnin...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.