Trade War

WASHINGTON (AP) — By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about the coronavirus, it may already have been too late. Interviewed at Davos, a gathering of global elites in the Swiss Alps, the president on Jan. 22 played down the threat posed by the respiratory virus from China,…

Business U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc said on Friday it has started China sales of two lower-priced Model 3 variants built at its Shanghai plant, meaning all Model 3 sedans sold in the country are now locally made and not subject to import tax. Tesla China-made Model 3 vehicles…

Recessions characterized by a sharp deceleration in economic growth are often followed by a sharp acceleration. Hence, the origin of the nomenclature a “V-shaped recovery.”Given the sudden, severe and exogenous nature of the current downturn, the onset of which will likely be dated to March 2020, economists were initially expecting…

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SINGAPORE (April 3, 2020) – Thailand’s export-and-tourism-dependent economy, already weakened by the US-China trade war, was dealt a further blow by the Covid-19 outbreak. The nation’s 50 richest on the 2020 Forbes Thailand Rich List saw $28 billion erased from their combined wealth, which declined 18% to a total of…

A senior official from Huawei spoke to members of the press earlier this week on the state of the Chinese tech giant's status amid numerous global challenges, including the company's global 5G rollout.Eric Xu, rotating chairman for Huawei, briefed members of the press on the company's progress amid challenges amid…

Clockwise from left: Harlem Unbound, Infinity Gauntlet, Escape From Flat Earth, and The Game of Real Life.Image: Chaosium, Inc., Z-Man Games, I Love Toast, Jesse FinkelsteinWelcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. It’s now been a couple of weeks since social distancing…

The world's largest telecoms equipment provider released figures from sales revenues across numerous divisions on Tuesday, with high-level executives weighing in on the company's performance amid US trade restrictions and the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.Huawei Technologies reported "solid business performance" in its 2019 Annual Report, with revenues increasing 19.1 percent year-on-year…

These are crazy times, I get it. Two weeks ago today, I moved my wife and two young boys from our two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, New York, to my mom’s house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Every day has been a blur of HousingWire, homeschooling two boys and sharing space with five…

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