TRADE WARS

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US hopeful about China talks to resolve trade dispute
May 02, 2018 (AFP)
If they fail to agree on a course of action to protect intellectual property rights from depredation, US punitive tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods are se...
Trump's tariff decision shows EU's strategic weight: analysts
May 01, 2018 (AFP)
The White House late Monday announced Trump was extending the exemptions from punishing metals tariffs for Canada, Mexico and the EU. The EU expressed disappoin...
China manufacturing activity slows in April
Apr 30, 2018 (AFP)
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a key gauge of factory conditions, came in at 51.4 in April, slightly off 51.5 in the previous month, the National Bureau ...
Labor unions face hard road in Silicon Valley
Apr 27, 2018 (AFP)
And yet there are signs that interest is on the rise. Engineer Bjorn Westergard and a dozen colleagues were fired early this year by Lanetix. The startup specia...
Canada's Freeland skips NATO to pursue NAFTA deal
Apr 26, 2018 (AFP)
This comes as Washington upped the pressure on its neighbors to reach a deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by May 1 or face tariffs on stee...
China warns US against causing 'damage' to trade in Huawei probe
Apr 26, 2018 (AFP)
A US Justice Department probe would come on the back of subpoenas issued to the company by the US Commerce and Treasury Departments over sanctions-related issue...
Apple, Ireland strike deal on 13-billion-euro tax payment
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
The formal signature is expected later on Tuesday and the money will go into an escrow account, a type of third-party account used in transactions, the finance ...
Rare Modigliani nude sets world record $150m estimate
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
Painted in 1917, "Nu couch (sur le ct gauche)" is one of only nine Modigliani nudes in private collectors' hands, making the sale exceptionally rare. The 147-ce...
US trade officials to visit China soon, Trump says
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and other officials will make the trip at Beijing's behest, the president told repo...
Door to US-China trade talks seems to open after IMF meeting
Apr 22, 2018 (AFP)
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who has been urging countries to avoid damaging protectionism, said this weekend's spring meeting had "made...
Greek president rejects soldier swap with Turkey
Apr 22, 2018 (AFP)
Pavlopoulos ruled out the potential swap after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said his government would consider the Greek soldiers' case if...
Beijing says welcomes Mnuchin visit for crunch trade talks
Apr 22, 2018 (AFP)
Tensions between the world's two largest economies have cast a shadow over the gathering of finance ministers in Washington, with concerns a trade war could und...
World Bank shareholders approve $13 bln capital increase
Apr 21, 2018 (AFP)
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said neither China nor any middle income countries was happy about the prospect of paying more for loans, but they agreed beca...
Escalating trade dispute could derail recovery, put 'many jobs at risk': WTO chief
Apr 20, 2018 (AFP)
And most of the impact of an all-out trade war would hit poor countries the hardest, he said in a statement to the International Monetary Fund's spring meetings...
France rejects 'vain and pointless' trade fight with China
Apr 20, 2018 (AFP)
"We will not be satisfied with a provisional exemption," French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the World Bank a...
China targets US, EU with rubber trade case
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
The case could stoke the simmering tit-for-tat trade tiff between Beijing and Washington, with each side having made threats of more duties on billions of dolla...
IMF's Lagarde warns against harming trade, investment
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said escalating trade tensions could reverberate through the world economy, undermining confidence and choking off investment, urgin...
As China, US continue to borrow, mounting debt a global liability: IMF
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
Mounting government deficits and indebtedness leave countries vulnerable to shocks and hinder their ability to respond should their economies falter, the IMF sa...
Bitcoin's true believers vow to ride out currency rollercoaster
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
"Two months ago we couldn't breathe here" due to the throngs, recalled Nick Spanos, founder of the trading and educational hub in lower Manhattan. "People outsi...
China's Central Bank to cut reserve requirement ratio by 1 percentage point
Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)
The move to cut the amount of cash which most commercial and foreign banks must hold in reserve, to repay loans obtained via the central bank's medium-term lend...
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