TRADE WARS

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US launches another trade case against China
Jun 12, 2018 (AFP)
It is the latest in a series of disputes the Trump administration has taken up against Beijing, the largest of which are the looming 25 percent tariffs on $50 b...
Malaysia PM urges TPP 'renegotiation'
Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)
Malaysia, along with 10 other countries, pushed ahead with the TPP in March despite Donald Trump having yanked the United States out of the huge multilateral tr...
Amazon supplier under fire for poor China working conditions
Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)
The investigation by US-based China Labor Watch found a series of problems including inadequate worker training and overtime pay, excessive overtime hours beyon...
Trump tweets about stock market ahead of Kim meet
Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)
"Stock Market up almost 40% since the Election, with 7 Trillion Dollars of U.S. value built throughout the economy," the president wrote in a series of pre-dawn...
China's Xiaomi announces pioneering listing plan
Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)
Xiaomi, one of the world's largest smartphone manufacturers that is planning a primary listing in Hong Kong, said in a regulatory filing that it will also issue...
Trump trade fury torpedoes Canada's G7 summit
Jun 10, 2018 (AFP)
Just minutes after a joint communique Saturday that had been approved by the leaders of the Group of Seven allies was published in Canada's summit host city Que...
China's Ant Financial raises $14bn to become biggest fintech firm
Jun 08, 2018 (AFP)
The cash infusion for Ant, an affiliate of e-commerce heavyweight Alibaba, provides fresh resources as its payments platform Alipay battles Tencent for supremac...
China's trade surplus with US jumps, global imports surge
Jun 08, 2018 (AFP)
The figures may reinforce Washington's determination to move forward with new tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of Chinese imports as early as next week. B...
China offers to buy $70 bn of US goods, says official
Jun 07, 2018 (AFP)
Top Chinese economic advisor Liu He made the offer during weekend trade talks in Beijing with a US delegation led by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, The Wall St...
US, China reach $1.4 bn ZTE deal as signs emerge of trade talks progres
Jun 07, 2018 (AFP)
The deal could be a harbinger of progress in separate and fraught trade talks between the world's two largest economies although Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross ...
EU-US trade row looms over NATO defence meet
Jun 06, 2018 (AFP)
European countries are at loggerheads with Washington over punishing new US tariffs on steel and aluminium as well as President Donald Trump's decision to pull ...
Samurai wasps could help orchard growers battle stink bug invasion
Jun 06, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers are hopeful they're close to a natural remedy: the samurai wasp, Trissolcus halyomorphae. Thanks to the work of Hillary Peterson, a Penn State docto...
China offers to buy $70 billion in US goods: official
Jun 06, 2018 (AFP)
Top Chinese economic advisor Liu He made the offer during weekend trade talks in Beijing with a US delegation led by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, The Wall St...
China 'regrets' EU challenge at WTO
Jun 04, 2018 (AFP)
The EU brought the challenge to the WTO on Friday, accusing Beijing of unfairly requiring foreign firms to hand over their technology to Chinese companies in or...
China warns US against tariffs as trade talks end
Jun 03, 2018 (AFP)
The third round of trade talks between the world's two largest economies appeared to fall short of bridging the gap between Beijing and Washington, which are at...
EU joins global battle against Trump tariff onslaught
Jun 02, 2018 (AFP)
Meanwhile in Washington, US President Donald Trump floated the possibility of scrapping the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement in favor of separate...
China factory activity rises at fastest pace in eight months
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
The purchasing managers index came in at 51.9, up from 51.4 last month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, in line with a Bloomberg News survey. The ...
Escalating trade battle embroils G7 finance meet
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
Long a bastion of multilateralism, the Group of Seven ministerial in a Canadian mountain resort will serve as the latest battleground for the discord now at the...
Walmart goes upscale with personal shopper service
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
The new $50 per month service called Jetblack is launching in New York, offering "curated shopping recommendations" using both artificial intelligence and profe...
Eurozone inflation leaps higher delivering 'headache' to ECB
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
The EU's statistics authority, Eurostat, said inflation in the eurozone jumped to 1.9 percent in May, a sharp pick-up from the 1.2 percent recorded in April. Th...
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