Sentences with phrase «current trade tensions»

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The current risk aversion observed in the capital markets is «reasonably understandable» due to the uncertainty over how trade tensions are going to ease, says Jonathan Pain of The Pain Report.

Patrick Chovanec of Silvercrest Asset Management says concerns around issues such as inflation and trade tensions have «eclipsed» the good news around the current market performance.

So far, trade tensions have led to bouts of market volatility, but have not signaled that the economy won't be able to continue growing at its current pace.

We expect the direct economic impact of current trade actions to be relatively minor (and dwarfed by the pro-growth measures passed to date), but further escalation of trade tensions could strengthen the economic headwinds.

In a new report, the body says that the current state of trade is the strongest it has been since before the financial crisis, but it could falter if trade tensions escalate further.

The stakes of next week's meeting will be high, He argues: «The current China - U.S. trade tension is not only a bilateral showdown, still less a tech transfer issue, but a major struggle between unilateral protectionism and multilateral free trade.»

The current sanctions limit the amount of energy that can be legally exported to North Korea, and Russia would like the tensions to be resolved so they could export more energy (though allegedly they are still trading under the table) and also so that Russia would have an easier path to trade with South Korea.

But, one need look no further than the current debate in the UK over the EU referendum to find other parallels with Repeal — e.g., an internal split in the Conservative party over British identity (particularly in a world with increasing trade linkages); the difficulty in ascertaining the winners and losers from a fundamental reorientation of trade policy, amidst inherent uncertainty; the existence of tensions between different sectors and regions, stemming from trade exposure; and so on.

Do you think international trade is becoming more restrictive due to current worldwide tensions?