Stephen Gallagher, Societe Generale chief U.S. economist, and John Stoltzfus, Oppenheimer Asset Management chief investment strategist, discuss the market and economic impact of President Trump's
trade rhetoric with China.
Not exact matches
«If that
rhetoric continues to heat up over the summer, that's going to create some degree of uncertainty as to whether the U.S. would become a bit more closed or introduce
trade friction
with its
trading partners,» de la Durantaye says.
One of the biggest names in the auto industry is concerned
with potential changes to free
trade amid the new protectionist
rhetoric that is coming from countries including the U.S.
He also seems to believe his bellicose
rhetoric will soften up U.S.
trading partners into making better deals
with the U.S. in the future.
President Donald Trump and his advisors were loud in their threats of a
trade war
with China but the Shanghai Index charts shows China is shrugging off this
rhetoric.
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.
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is shooting back at Donald Trump's anti-Canadian
trade rhetoric saying she will be «tough and strong» in fighting for Canada's economic interests
with the U.S.
But the hawkish
rhetoric of the campaign has given way to more measured statements on
trade from the administration that track more closely
with the stance of many congressional Republicans, who are avid promoters of free
trade and deeply skeptical of policies they view as restrictive or protectionist.
For all his tough
rhetoric on the campaign trail, Trump struck a conciliatory tone during his recent Beijing trip, praising Chinese President Xi Jinping and blaming his White House predecessors for the U.S.
trade deficit
with China.
The American Hotel and Lodging Association, a hotel
trade group, has made a concerted effort to kneecap Airbnb
with state legislation and political
rhetoric, The New York Times reported last year.
While Trump is unlikely to win New York next month, he was expected to do well in parts of upstate New York where is anti-free
trade and populist
rhetoric has resonated
with conservative voters.
The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug
trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the
rhetoric of freedom: in River of Smoke the nineteenth and twenty - first centuries meet, and the result is a consuming historical novel
with powerful contemporary resonance.
Whether simply a negotiating tactic or the actual start to a
trade conflict
with a major
trading partner, markets have certainly taken notice of the increasingly harsh
rhetoric.
I think a lot of the major environmental groups got on board
with, well, let's work
with the administration and use their
rhetoric and go behind the scenes and negotiate enormously complicated cap - and -
trade legislation and ram that thing through.