Trade War

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Last week Vanity Fair published an article claiming that mysterious traders made roughly $3.5 billion off stock bets timed to Trump's trade war comments. It essentially implied that certain traders were frontrunning…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of curtailing “rights and liberties” in Hong Kong in a wide-ranging critique of Beijing’s behavior but also insisted that the United States does not seek confrontation or to “de-couple…

Is Chinas intellectual property (IP) regime really all that bad? It has become generally accepted that the ongoing U.S.-China trade war is at least partially in response to Communist Chinas practice of forcing technology transfers and its extremely poor prote…

American hog farmers built up their herds this summer in anticipation of an export boom as African swine fever decimated Asian pig herds.However, the US-China trade war has weighed on demand for US exports, resulting in 40 million pounds of p…

Reuters American hog farmers built up their herds this summer in anticipation of an export boom as African swine fever decimated Asian pig herds.However, the US-China trade war has weighed on demand for US exports, resulting in 40 million po…

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson The American economy is under pressure as the trade war continues to weigh on exports.US industrial production has also suffered as a result of General Motors workers striking in September. These charts show ho…

The American economy is under pressure as the trade war continues to weigh on exports.US industrial production has also suffered as a result of General Motors workers striking in September. These charts show how these major events ha…

Hasbro Inc. stock plummeted 15.8% in Tuesday trading, headed to the biggest decline since December 2000, after earnings that missed expectations due to the impact of President Trumps tariffs on imports from China. Hasbro HAS, -13.47%   reported earnings …

In the latest signs the trade war is continuing to erode the global economy, exports in Japan and South Korea have extended their declines. The continued weakness from the two Asian bellwethers reinforces the view at the weekend meeting among global finance…