This was followed by a series of market ups and downs that, combined with
fears of a trade war, resulted in a turbulent quarter for equity investors worldwide.
Although the
effects of a trade war would be overall substantial, we do see a lot of variance in our calculations.
Many say it's important to consider the broader
impact of a trade war, and how losses could be passed on to local businesses.
It was a week when
fears of a trade war increased and the big tech stocks remained in the glare of the spotlight.
Market - watchers have been on edge in recent weeks with lingering
threats of trade wars and the possibility of the market turning negative.
While there is almost universal agreement that the overall
impact of a trade war is negative, market action suggests the hunt for the right stocks in a trade war has begun.
In recent months, economists and investors alike have liberally entertained the looming possibility
of a trade war between China and the U.S..
Mere weeks after President Donald Trump pushed billions of dollars in new tariffs that stoked fears
of a trade war with China, the focus of shoe...
As the
possibility of a trade war between the US and China looms, threats and counter-threats are hurled back and forth and markets gyrate, economic logic and truth appear to be an early casualty.
«We are extremely worried about the
consequences of a trade war and are urging the White House to not advance with this plan,» AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, said in a statement Monday.
While Xi is almost certain to hail the openness of China's economy and markets at Boao, his rhetoric will suffer from unfortunate timing, coming amid the
start of a trade war between China and the US.
NEW YORK, March 5 (Reuters)- Treasuries yields rose on Monday afternoon as the U.S. stock market recovered and fears
of a trade war eased after senior Republicans urged President Donald Trump to reconsider his threat to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.
NEW YORK Oil prices rose on Monday, supported by a rebound in the stock market as
concerns of a trade war between the United States and China eased.
But few trade economists would say that a trade war is good or that it should be sought out; most think
of trade wars as something to be avoided — or, at most, endured for the sake of protecting an industry that needs a helping hand from the government.
«Buying the yen
because of a trade war in which Japan was going to be hit pretty badly, and Japan hasn't been exempted from the steel tariffs by the way, that seems to me pretty peculiar,» Giles Keating, managing director at wealth manager Werthstein Institute, told CNBC.
Even so, the
specter of a trade war still looms over the agricultural sector, not just farmers, but also equipment dealers and banks in the Farm Belt.
In July, Goldman's chief global equity strategist, Peter Oppenheimer, recommended investors buy domestic - oriented stocks in the
event of a trade war.
WASHINGTON, D.C. As threats
of a trade war loom on the horizon, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) has sharply criticized the president's proposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.
From the opening
salvos of a trade war to a flattening US yield curve, a relatively benign economic outlook has given way to a more complex economic...
«If Trump really signs the order, that is a
declaration of trade war with China,» said Wei Jianguo, former vice commerce minister and now an executive deputy director of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, a government - linked think tank.
He opened by telling the crowd that he needed the newser to go quickly because «I've got a
lot of trade wars to escalate here.»
But recent market turmoil reminded the world that share prices don't always go up, as rising interest rates, sweeping technological change, and the possibility
of a trade war stoked anxiety on Main Street and Wall Street.
Erik Nielsen, group chief economist at UniCredit, discusses escalating
worries of a trade war between the U.S. and China.
We are already barely making ends meet,» says Daren Niemeyer, a 49 - year - old farmer in Nebraska who voted for Trump in 2016, when asked about his thoughts
of the trade war tensions between China and the U.S..
Then there's the prospect
of trade wars breaking out, something that bounces back and forth between seeming inevitable and seeming unlikely.
Yuichi Ikemizu of ICBC Standard Bank (Tokyo) said that the
probability of trade war getting worse had compelled the people to sell dollar and buy gold.
President Trump has taken on China and the tit - for - tat tariff battle between the US and China has raised fears
of a trade war which would be disastrous for Canada.
The tariffs he just signed are a more lenient version of the ones he proposed last week — a sign that forceful criticism by scores of Republican lawmakers and threats
of a trade war from the US's trading partners persuaded the president to try to soften the blow on imports.
«The general sentiment in equity markets has certainly shifted to one of caution, so I think today is one of those days where the news certainly wasn't new by any stretch, but the potential that this protectionist rhetoric will eventually spill into something a little more widespread in
terms of a trade war continues to worry equity markets.»
The fact is, most economists agree that trade deficits are not necessarily bad for the U.S. economy nor do they reflect some camouflaged
version of a trade war, as Ross asserts.
It is perhaps no wonder that China has threatened to add automobiles to the list of American products that could face even greater tariffs in the
fact of a trade wars.
Still, Canada's politicians should keep in mind that uncertainty about trade policy is weighing on business investment, and therefore
murmurs of trade wars will do nothing to build confidence.
European equities closed sharply lower on Friday, as heightened fears
of a trade war shook global markets.
Steel producer Nucor has the least
amount of trade war exposure of the companies listed by Lee, with just a 15 percent exposure.
When other countries think of things we like to export to them and they could impose tariffs, that's the
beginning of trade wars.»
Speaking on Bloomberg TV, he also trotted out all kinds of more or less vague and veiled threats - such as, «We will take all measures necessary,» or «We'll see what we're doing next» - perhaps having forgotten that China and Hong Kong combined export three times as much to the US as the other way around, and the
pain of a trade war would be magnified by three on the Chinese side.
«I think at the end of the day that virtually all of the «trade war» effects will be negotiated away and the true economic impact on industries as well as specific companies will be very small, so I haven't factored the impact
of any trade war considerations into my portfolio,» she said.
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