Financial markets have gone into chaos as investors
worry about the trade wars impact on world trade and growth, and the value of the dollar.
Combine that with simmering
worries about trade wars and inflation, and you get a climate in which fewer investors are clicking the «buy» button.
Ignore all the day - to - day headlines out of Washington, he said on «Fast Money Halftime Report,» even as equities were coming intense under pressure on
concerns about a trade war after President Donald Trump announced steel and aluminum tariffs.
Even though G.E. also does a lot of business and manufacturing in China, Flannery is not worried
about a trade war between the U.S. and that country.
How investors can protect against a trade war — in one sentence UBS Wealth Management's Mark Haefele offers a game plan focused on stock sectors and regionsWhat should investors worried
about a trade war do?
The market had a terrible week
fretting about trade war fears on the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports with the reciprocal tariffs by China on agricultural products.
WASHINGTON — Stocks dropped Monday as technology companies came under fire and fears grew
about a trade war with China.
The U.S. dollar held steady versus a basket of major currencies as solid company results and fading concerns
about a trade war helped keep a lid on safe - haven demand for the greenback.
I'd say it's getting some support, however, from concerns
about trade wars largely weighing on the U.S. dollar to some extent.»
Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, responded Wednesday by saying that Trump was
wrong about trade wars being easy to win.
One little historical
note about trade wars, courtesy of the Economist, April 7 — 13 issue — in an article entitled «Blow for Blow,» the writer discusses Canada's response to the American Smoot - Hawley tariff of 1930, when Canada raised the tariff on eggs in retaliation for America's doing the same: «Douglas Irwin of Dartmouth College reports that the number of eggs Canada exported to America fell 40 % between 1929 and 1932.
So when he heard President Donald Trump say he was imposing steep tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, he was positively, profanely delighted,
warnings about a trade war be damned.
Cook also weighed in on fears
about a trade war between the United States and China, which is Apple's third - largest market.
They could calm investors who spent the early part of 2018
fretting about a trade war and fading global growth despite forecasts from the International Monetary Fund for the fastest expansion this year since 2011.
Fears about a trade war between the world's two biggest economic powers emerged in March after Mr. Trump unveiled tariffs on global imports of aluminum and steel.
President Donald Trump has beeninjecting uncertainty into the stock market lately, and the jolts and volatility could continue as long as investors
worry about trade wars.
In this interview with Business Insider's Sara Silverstein, Parker explains why he's not worried
about a trade war.
Michael Hartnett realizes you're worrying
about a trade war, and he has some advice for you: Keep an eye on the bigger and potentially more catastrophic issue at hand — the Federal Reserve's ongoing monetary tightening.
Sparked by the Trump administration's recent tariffs, nearly three - quarters of respondents to the CNBC Fed Survey say they are now worried
about a trade war.
President Donald Trump has been injecting uncertainty into the stock market lately, and the jolts and volatility could continue as long as investors worry
about trade wars.
But nowadays, Tice says he's very worried
about the trade wars and Syria.
Market volatility has increased significantly in the last several weeks as traders worried
about a trade war and other geopolitical issues.
No, I'm not talking
about the trade war, but we could be seeing progress on that, and not the attack on Syria, that has not happened, yet.
As we have noted, we would become more concerned
about a trade war and a slower - than - expected economic growth rate if we were to see the governments of the largest trading economies beginning to impose rounds of tariffs on their largest trade categories, including automobiles and auto parts, electronics, petroleum products, and electronics and machinery.
His study provided a warning
about the trade wars that can arise when a single nation's tariff policy «threatens with ruin» specialized industries in other countries, arousing «bitterness» throughout their populations.
Fears
about a trade war and monetary tightening seem to have dissipated and low equity prices were too good to pass up.
North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) says she is extremely concerned about President Donald Trump's position on tariffs, expressing fears
about trade war.