Trade War

As the Democrats ratchet up impeachment talk, they may be giving the Chinese false hope that high-level trade negotiations with the U.S., which resume Thursday, will get easier. “They are looking very closely at what’s going on in the U.S., and this impeachm…

China is still open to agreeing a partial trade deal with the U.S., an official with direct knowledge of the talks said, signaling that Beijing is focused on limiting the damage to the worlds second-largest economy. Negotiators heading to Washington for talk…

REUTERS/Stringer China's central bank has plowed funds into gold over the last 10 months, adding over 100 tons of the precious metal to its reserves. China's gold reserves rose by 5.9 tons in September, bringing the total added since Decembe…

Associated Press European stocks and US futures dropped on Monday following reports China will adopt a tougher negotiating stance in trade talks with the US this week.Chinese officials don't plan to offer concessions such as reforms to indus…

Mary E. Lovely is a professor of economics at Syracuse University and non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. As the United States and China prepare to resume t…

* U.S. manufacturing ISM survey hits decade low * Bulls hope U.S.-China talks will ease manufacturing woes * Fed fund futures price in 80% chance of Oct Fed rate cut * Asia shares down 0.6%, European shares seen down 0.2%-0.4% By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO, Oct…

By Arra B. Francia, Senior Reporter LOCAL EQUITIES fell on Monday, moving with most Asian indices as investors grew more concerned about the United States trade war with China. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) went down 0.51% or 40.15 points to cl…

Rick Wilking/Reuters Stronger earnings helped brighten the outlook for Americans in September.But consumers have grown increasingly anxious about tariffs on thousands of products traded between the largest economies.Trump announced …

JEJU, South Korea — South Koreans are demonstrating en masse, boycotting Japanese goods, and canceling their trips to Japan to strike a blow in an increasingly bitter trade war between the two nations. South Korea and Japan are in the middle of a massive tra…

Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System. By Paul Blustein. CIGI Press; 280 pages; $35. AMERICAS ECONOMIC relationship with China is rupturing. Tariffs now cover around two-thirds of the countries bilateral trade in goods, and w…