For Asia / Emerging Markets equities, meanwhile, uncertainty
over trade protectionism could drive valuation adjustment to the downside.
Not exact matches
The benefits of free
trade and cross border investment are so clear that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is not concerned
over Trump's
protectionism.
«At the same time, there are clear downside risks: political uncertainty, including in Europe; the sword of
protectionism hanging
over global
trade; and tighter global financial conditions that could trigger disruptive capital outflows from emerging and developing economies,» the former French finance minister said.
CNBC's Nancy Hungerford discusses escalating
protectionism fears as the U.S. and China clash
over trade.
G - 20 Finance Ministers and central bankers meeting in Baden - Baden
over the weekend dropped a long - standing reference to the pursuit of free and open
trade and the rejection of
protectionism in their official commnique, a move many saw as a swipe at U.S. - focused
trade policies pursued by the Donald Trump administration.
Concerns
over trade imbalances, alleged
trade - rule violations, subsidization and state - owned enterprises, metastasizing industrial policies, discriminatory treatment of non-Chinese companies, and other forms of
trade and investment
protectionism have preoccupied Washington for a decade — ever since the United States limped out of a debilitating recession to find that China had supplanted it as the world's largest manufacturer and had set its sights on leapfrogging the United States, at all costs, to the technological fore.
Over a thousand economists have written to Donald Trump warning his «economic
protectionism» and tough rhetoric on
trade threatens to repeat the mistakes the US made in the 1930s, mistakes that plunged the world into the Great Depression.
And amid the debate
over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some
trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic
protectionism.
In fact, the blame for the drop in stocks
over the last four
trading days has been placed primarily on the Fed bogeyman, with
protectionism providing an assist on the last two days.