Sentences with phrase «out trade wars»

Using history as a guide, all - out trade wars prove to be devastating and this recent shift is a clear departure from trade policy that has held precedent for over 80 years.

Investors» fears of an all - out trade war between the United States and China is prompting U.S. stock fund managers to hunt for companies that can easily pass on higher costs to their consumers.

The prospect of tariffs has created deep concerns in Canada, the No. 1 supplier of both steel and aluminum to the U.S. Ottawa has hinted at retaliatory action, as have the European Union and Mexico, in what could become an all - out trade war.

By the end of trading, fear of an all - out trade war had knocked more than 2 % off the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

«Ultimately it will be in the interest of both sides not to pursue an all - out trade war,» said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group.

There might be some light at the end of the tunnel: Chinese officials have urged trade talks in recent weeks in order to avoid an all - out trade war.

As long as the Trump administration's steel and aluminum tariffs do not trigger an all - out trade war, the economic impacts will be minimal, according to an analysis by Barclays Research.

According to Du Lan, an assistant research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies in Beijing, while Xi's speech was generally well received in the US, until there was further evidence of China's opening up, the threat of an all - out trade war would not go away.

WASHINGTON — With trade tensions mounting between the United States and China, President Trump said he would dispatch his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and other top economic advisers to Beijing next week to try to forestall an all - out trade war.

Top of the risk charts was the US's new - found protectionism, with trade tariffs having the potential to batter investor confidence — especially if the US's trading partners, rather than adopting a mollifying stance, choose instead to meet fire with fire by launching an all - out trade war.

plaguing the drawn - out, populist - driven negotiations, or a flat - out trade war between the two countries.

Pessimistic views suggest that their rhetoric could result in either uncertainty plaguing the drawn - out, populist - driven negotiations, or a flat - out trade war between the two countries.

Becky Frankiewicz, president of ManpowerGroup, a staffing firm, said she was already hearing from clients that they are more hesitant to commit to major projects, at least until they see whether this week's skirmishes develop into an all - out trade war.

Market Recap for April Geopolitics played a key role in the U.S. stock market in April, as the Trump administration fired the first salvos of what many fear could turn into an all - out trade war between the biggest world economies — the U.S. and China.

I'm hoping that this is about sending a message, rather than an all - out trade war.

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The threat of a trade war would also freak out the overseas investors we count on to buy our government bonds, and keep our interest rates at super-low levels.

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.

Canadian politicians know there are points to be scored with voters by threatening trade wars, but things could quickly spiral out of control

«We've opened up a new front in the trade war, and while it's quieter than all of the bombast about tariffs that had people freaking out, there are still a ton of companies that can get hurt here,» the «Mad Money» host said.

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.

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.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, for one, staked out different ground, telling reporters in Davos that «trade wars are fought every single day, the difference is U.S. troops are now coming to the ramparts.»

But without a consensus from the economic community, it would be unwise to risk stamping out the economic recovery by sparking a trade war with China over currency disputes or drastically reducing the budget deficit.

Once Wall Street gets more clarity from this week's Federal Reserve meeting and rhetoric surrounding the risks of trade wars subside, Vertical Research Partner Michael Dudas expects gold to spring out of its trading range.

If a trade war breaks out, companies like Apple and Walmart will be caught in the crossfire, but Apple has the most to lose, CNBC's Jim Cramer argued on Friday.

But given Trump's unwillingness to stake out clear positions on taxes and spending, and his enthusiasm for threatening trade wars with China and Mexico, supporting Trump could risk elevating the populist, protectionist wing of the Republican party over the significant chunk of Republicans who believe in cutting spending and promoting free trade.

Meanwhile, fears of a potential trade war breaking out following recent moves from the U.S. that would implement tariffs on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports have also not alleviated the situation.

Several companies will benefit relative to the broader market if a global trade war breaks out, UBS says.

Uhlenkott points out that it's the small and medium - size enterprises, as opposed to larger manufacturers of automobiles and airplanes, that are likely to be put out of business in a trade war.

Even if new tariffs spark an international trade war, Trump is confident the United States would come out on top.

Speaking at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland, Speth said it was impossible to be concerned about the prospect of a brewing trade war at this stage because «hardly any» information on how it would play out was available.

Though talk of an all - out global trade war has dampened, some analysts still believe that protectionism is a cause for concern — especially when it comes to tech.

Unless a full - scale trade war breaks out, it's unlikely that we'll see much damage to financial markets.

More important now, he explained, is that after the volatility of the Mack era, including the epic trading losses, and the turf wars between the institutional business and wealth management that forced out Mr. Purcell, something resembling stability reigns at Morgan Stanley.

The departure of Mr. Porter, who organized weekly trade policy meetings and coordinated the trade advisers, has helped fuel a chaotic situation that has descended into an all - out war among various trade advisers, people close to the White House said.

He was not only breaking with Republican orthodoxy, but was also inviting a trade war that would threaten the livelihood of the working class that he had based his campaign on; it was altogether likely that price increases as a result of his tariffs would wipe out the small income gains that his tax cut bill had brought and slow the healthy economy.

«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.

Trade wars are a particularly unnerving prospect for many exporters in other countries, since retaliatory actions can spiral out of control.

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.

With his announcement last week of broad tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, President Trump launched what could be the first salvo of an all - out global trade war.

This reflects a view that Trump has consistently maintained in his personal rhetoric and that has been reflected in the official documents put out by some of the members of his trade team — trade deficits are per se bad, reducing them induces prosperity mechanically, and so there is no downside to a trade war with a country with whom the United States runs a large trade deficit.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China's trade surplus with the United States surged nearly 20 percent in the first quarter, with some analysts speculating exporters were rushing out shipments to get ahead of threatened tariffs that are spurring fears of a full - blown trade war.

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.

«I think that it's very dangerous to get into a tit - for - tat war in trade, because even if your goal is to be moderate and proportional in response, one thing can lead to another and it can get out of control,» Jacob J. Lew, the Treasury secretary under President Barack Obama, told CNBC last week.

Fears of a trade war breaking out rocked the financial markets on Thursday afternoon, with the Dow falling 724 points, the fifth - largest point decline in history.

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.

According to two officials, Trump's decision to launch a potential trade war was born out of anger at other simmering issues and the result of a broken internal process that has failed to deliver him consensus views that represent the best advice of his team.

The author pointed out that big countries are at most risk from a trade war (so focus on smaller ones), big companies are most subject to regulatory / antitrust actions (so go small), and regional opportunities are better than global ones.

In a commentary widely cited in Chinese media on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said if things went poorly and a trade war did break out, China would never yield and would hit back strongly.

But after the Korean War broke out, U.S. overseas military spending accounted for the entire payments deficit during the 1950s and «60s and early «70s, while private - sector trade and investment were exactly in balance.