Sentences with phrase «of a trade war which»

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The state, which is not a big steel exporter but produces some of the key raw materials, could suffer collateral damage in a full trade war.

A number of U.S. policymakers have sought to justify stoking a trade war with China in recent weeks, saying it is «unfair» for the world's biggest economy to have a current account deficit — which measures the flow of goods, services and investments into and out of the country — with Beijing.

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

It's worth noting that companies often base their final decision on a possible public offering on the overall performance of public markets, which have been volatile in recent weeks due to fears over trade wars.

It is easy to laugh at the bizarre logic which lies behind the trade war started by US President Donald Trump, but in countries on the fringe of a remarkable global event, such as Australia, the laughing will soon stop.

After tweeting Friday that «trade wars are good, and easy to win» — a statement that flies in the face of both economics and history — he took a shot at European critics Saturday, saying: «If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S.»

«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.

He said the cargo market, which helped fuel Cathay's second - half improvement in 2017, remained strong despite the risk of a looming trade war between the United States and China.

The threat of a global trade war, which has caught the attention of investors in a big way, is also a concern for the Federal Reserve.

He defended Trump's decision to set levies of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum, a move that rocked financial markets and which critics say threatens U.S. jobs and ignites the possibility of a global trade war.

Though he acknowledged that the U.S. «has some serious trade issues with China, which have grown over the years,» including not just tariffs but also alleged Chinese cybersecurity breaches and intellectual property violations of American companies, the CEO said those problems do not necessitate a trade war.

Treasury yields resume a steady climb higher on Wednesday as fretting about the threat of an economically disruptive trade war between the U.S. and China subsided, and takes a back seat to the concerns about rising interest rates and coming labor - market data, which could inform the Federal Reserve's policy agenda.

«The free trade, or freer trade, that we've had since the end of the Second World War has been the great engine which has lifted up literally hundreds of millions of people out of poverty — far more than any aid programs,» Hufbauer says.

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Having tried to dissuade Trump behind the scenes, hoping that he would vacillate on this issue as he had on DACA and guns, the usually supine Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan finally spoke up after five days of public silence, expressing concern on the part of their followers that the tariffs would set off a trade war and wipe out the economic gains on which they were pinning their November election prospects.

The prospect of an aerospace trade war between Canada and the U.S. loomed over the third round of NAFTA negotiations, which wrapped up in Ottawa Wednesday afternoon.

The end result would be a trade war in which everybody loses — and ultimately, it could mean the end of North America's economic integration.

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

With Britain looking for partners outside the EU, there will surely be more accommodation, no less, which will heighten the risk of damaging further the relationship with Donald Trump's United States, bracing itself for a possible trade war with China.

US business groups: «The U.S. Chamber is very concerned about the increasing prospects of a trade war, which would put at risk the economic momentum achieved through the administration's tax and regulatory reforms,» Thomas Donohue, CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement.

Trump's conviction that trade wars are «good» seems related to his apparent belief that they are «easy to win,» which is the most revealing part of his tweet.

Crude oil prices got a scare on reports that Gary Cohn, chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump, is resigning, which raised fears that the world is on the brink of an all - out tariff and trade war.

With its flexible financial system and the gradual elimination by the 1970s of all capital restrictions, the United States was able quickly to adapt, and began running large trade deficits whose costs, in the form of unemployment and consumer debt, it was willing to absorb for geopolitical advantage, the importance of which soared during the Cold War.

So the question is whether Mr. Kudlow — not so much the individual, but the trade war - averse faction within the administration of which he is perhaps the most visible member — and others are going to be in position to prevent the administration from doing anything economically destructive on trade.

The rally is also helped by the strong opposition against Trump's tariff plans, which eased fears of an outright trade war between the US and its largest partners.

Mr. Navarro on Monday tried to calm financial markets, which were rattled last week by the prospect of a trade war.

The United States economy and global trade have prospered under this global trading system, which contributed greatly to the recovery of the war - torn economies of Europe and Asia, and more recently fostered the remarkable growth of South Korea following the Korean War and spurred the development of many emerging - market economiwar - torn economies of Europe and Asia, and more recently fostered the remarkable growth of South Korea following the Korean War and spurred the development of many emerging - market economiWar and spurred the development of many emerging - market economies.

The trade wars that followed the Republican passage of the protectionist Smoot - Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which raised duties on hundreds of imports, similarly contain illustrative lessons for today.

«The notion that's driving the price action is not just the geopolitics, which could yet trigger a trade war (or an actual one), but the relatively strong determination of the Fed to continue its path of rate increases,» said Ian Lyngen and Aaron Kohli, fixed - income strategists at BMO Capital Markets, in a note.

Gold is rallying right now, but as I told Daniela Cambone in last week's «Gold Game Film,» it has little to do with Russian geopolitics, or even trade war fears, which have subsided somewhat in the past couple of weeks.

After a series of tit - for - tat tariffs between the economic giants, there has been widespread concern that these moves could lead to a trade war which would slow down Chinese growth and trigger a global recession.

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

All of which means a sustained trade war could lead to higher unemployment and slower economic growth in the US.

However, Hansen explained that the economic data and the growing threat of a global trade war don't support aggressive action from the Federal Reserve, which should be positive for gold prices.

Fears of a global trade war have risen after Trump imposed hefty import tariffs on steel and aluminum earlier this month under Section 232 of the 1962 U.S. Trade Expansion Act, which allows safeguards based on «national security&ratrade war have risen after Trump imposed hefty import tariffs on steel and aluminum earlier this month under Section 232 of the 1962 U.S. Trade Expansion Act, which allows safeguards based on «national security&raTrade Expansion Act, which allows safeguards based on «national security».

The conflict faced by Trump's supporters in Montana, where some 28,000 farms and ranches make agriculture a top economic driver in the state, is reflective of the one facing the larger U.S. agriculture industry, which also largely backed Trump but now risks becoming a casualty if a trans - Pacific trade war erupts.

A string of such retaliatory measures could lead to a trade war, which would likely have damaging effects in the US and across the globe.

During a dizzying week in which the world's two largest economies exchanged threats of heavy tariffs, Beijing has insisted that it's ready to wage a trade war «to the end.»

One day it could be industrial companies such as Boeing or Caterpillar, which export lots of products and therefore could be harmed in a trade war.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce indicated that the tariffs, which it first publicly suggested almost two weeks ago, were intended to pressure the Trump administration to back down from a simmering trade war.

Global trade wars (or even the threat of such) are not good for business and are, in fact, INFLATIONARY because of supply dislocations which cause price distortions.

But while the industry applauds the Trump administration's efforts to rebalance unfair, global trade relationships — and certainly the World Trade Organization's anti-dumping measures have been largely ineffective to date — protectionist policies like tariffs will disrupt the complex, global supply chains on which manufacturers rely and stoke the flames of a tit - for - tat tradetrade relationships — and certainly the World Trade Organization's anti-dumping measures have been largely ineffective to date — protectionist policies like tariffs will disrupt the complex, global supply chains on which manufacturers rely and stoke the flames of a tit - for - tat tradeTrade Organization's anti-dumping measures have been largely ineffective to date — protectionist policies like tariffs will disrupt the complex, global supply chains on which manufacturers rely and stoke the flames of a tit - for - tat tradetrade war.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!

It is this close unity of the Mediterranean ecology, which was in mind when Boissevain pointed out in his review of the book, The People of the Mediterranean, that it is more than just a place of meeting, trading and war.

With the rising Ukrainian nationalism and the increasingly more and more visible loss of control of the central government over the country (in the recent trade blockade of Donbass by Ukrainian nationalists, president Poroshenko protested the blockade but was unable to force its lifting), it is possible that Ukrainian military will take more forceful action against Donbass and Luhansk, which may force Russia's hand, so not all risk of war is beyond us.

3) Apart from arms trading, mentioned by user1, there are numerous of other businesses which will be gaining profit from such a war (big credit institutes, resource companies, technology companies - information & telecoms etc., food industry).

The challenge is to create a forum which can focus on the Tory plan for the future, notably its assault priorities of attritional war on local services and an assault on the trade unions.

The powerful union boss said he and the leaders of the other main trade unions - which plough millions of pounds into Labour's coffers every year - wanted to sit down with the party's warring factions to end the in - fighting.

I have a chapter in my book Cancer Wars called «Doubt Is Our Product,» which is about the hundreds and hundreds of different industries that use these techniques of sowing doubt in order to minimize hazard, as do various trade associations.