Trade War

Melbourne: Oil prices fell in early trade on Monday, paring last week’s gains, on worries the global oil glut may persist as US-China trade tension could hold back an economic recovery even as coronavirus pandemic lockdowns start to ease. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 futures fell as low…

Donald Trump must decide whether he wants to pump the stock market or get tough on China. On Friday, the Dow Jones proved it cannot cope with the re-emergence of trade war tensions. Wall Street may have just lost its biggest ally. Stock market sentiment cracked on Friday, as the…

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Prakarsh GagdaniWith the US president talking about new tariffs on Beijing in the wake of the pandemic, another range of speculations has been ignited swirling up discussions over what could be the impact of the potential move over the various markets.From the very beginning of the spread of the pandemic…

NZD/USD drops on renewed trade concerns and risk-off tone in stocks.  The Kiwi trades near the 5-day average support, having printed a high of 0.6126 early Friday. The New Zealand dollar is on the offer on Friday with renewed fears of a trade war weighing over the risk sentiment.  The…

Image copyright Reuters US President Donald Trump has said China "will do anything they can" to make him lose his re-election bid, stepping up his criticism of Beijing amid the coronavirus pandemic.In a White House interview with Reuters news agency, he said Beijing faced a "lot" of possible consequences from…

US tech giants seeking to expand test production in Taiwan Aaron Lee, Taipei; Willis Ke, DIGITIMES Wednesday 29 April 2020 US tech giants including Apple, Facebook and Google reportedly are mulling expanding test production of new products in Taiwan, whose advantages in the IT manufacturing sector have been highlighted by US-China…

By Rich Woods Senior Editor for North America Neowin @@TheRichWoods · Apr 28, 2020 16:20 EDT · Hot! According to a new leak from WinFuture, Huawei is set to refresh its P Smart handset. The device itself isn't particularly exciting, sitting quietly in the lower end of the mid-tier. What's…

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A record year of sales is set to sharply reverse course, at least for the moment. The last year has been rough going for Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX). The field programmable gate array (FPGA) leader first started to show signs its growth run was coming to an end during the U.S.-China trade…