Sentences with phrase «escalation of a trade war»

Hartnett warns «deflationary» behavior may be required to stop the escalation of a trade war — which would mean lower stock prices and lower yields.

The tariff talk out of Washington is not an escalation of a trade war, it is about correcting lopsided policies, said Larry Lindsey, who served a top economic advisor to President George W. Bush.

President Donald Trump ordered his chief trade negotiator to consider imposing tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion of Chinese products Thursday, in a dramatic escalation of his trade war with China.

Not exact matches

And, when asked about the impact of potential trade war escalation, Cook seemed surprisingly sanguine about the state of U.S. - China relations.

Before Wednesday's escalation with Russia, whose ambassador to Lebanon had earlier suggested Russia would retaliate to any US strike in Syria, the president had been locked in a trade stare down with China for weeks, stoking investor fears of a trade war.

The Bill 12 legislation and the trade war escalation it might spark would damage Alberta and Canadian businesses and citizens as well as those in British Columbia, warned Greg D'Avignon, CEO of the Business Council of B.C.

All of which sounds very much like the escalation of a potential trade war between the world's economic superpowers.

The escalation has prompted fears of an international trade war, particularly in Silicon Valley, which sources and sells its products around the world.

Phil Levy, who was a senior official on President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, told me that his rule of thumb for characterizing something as a trade war is that the escalation of trade barriers is «uncontrolled.»

Beijing has responded in kind, so prospects for an escalation of tit - for - tat protectionism are ripe, and a debilitating trade war is not out of the realm of possibilities.