Sentences with phrase «traded threats over»

But oil prices slipped as the U.S. and China traded threats over tariffs on scores of imported goods.

Not exact matches

The ministers frequently evoked their close relationship, but there was an undercurrent of tension as the threat of trade war and the prospect of NAFTA's collapse loomed over the panel.

On Sept. 5 of this year, the Dow dropped 234 points amid a series of potentially volatile political events, including the debate over raising the debt ceiling, a possible government shutdown, and threats from Trump over trade policy with China.

The Wall Street Journal reported that ««China and the U.S. have quietly started negotiating to improve U.S. access to Chinese markets, after a week filled with harsh words from both sides over Washington's threat to use tariffs to address trade imbalances,» people with knowledge of the matter said.»

Since then, the threat of an international trade war has roiled the markets over a series of tariffs proposed by the U.S. and China.

Oil prices finish higher as IMF move threatens Venezuelan output Traders also weigh jump in U.S. crude supplies, risks to Iran dealAfter trading on a mixed note for much of Wednesday's session, oil prices settled decidedly higher, as the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela reignited market concerns over the struggling nation's crude production.

But there have been signs in the past few weeks that as U.S. President Donald Trump has ratcheted up the pressure on China over its trade policy — including a series of threats to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese goods coming into the United States — that a backsliding on deleveraging may be close.

Unable to come up with any agreement in Seoul on resolving conflicts over currency and trade, the G20 created its own mantra: «Persistent global imbalances pose a threat to economic stability.»

The threat of a trade war loomed over Jerome H. Powell's inaugural speech as Federal Reserve chairman on Friday in Chicago, even as he tried to focus attention on the fundamental strength of the American economy.

McCann has also broken several national news stories, including that University of Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino hired his mistress over 150 more qualified candidates, that Donald Sterling informed the NBA of his refusal to comply with the NBA's sanction and that Sterling hired a legal team with a threat to sue the NBA, and that the Los Angeles Angels were set to trade troubled outfielder Josh Hamilton.

«The increased interdependency of countries, economies, and cultures resulting from tremendous growth in international travel and trade over the last several decades has brought improved access to goods and services, but also a variety of health threats,» said Jendayi Frazer, co-chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report and adjunct senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Liberalization of economic policies world - over, and various intergovernmental negotiations to open trades between different countries, have resulted in globalization, which, in my opinion, offers both tremendous opportunities, but also a few threats.

Factually the book is perfect: the arguments for a convoy to counter the German U-boat threat to vital shipping, sound; the assessment of the influence of Ultra on the Allies» eventual triumph over that threat, accurate; the recognition of the remarkable courage of those in the «trade» throughout its short history, unsurprising.

Another great lesson.I particularly note this truth... * The 2 % rule plays tricks with your mind *, * it literally makes you less sensitive to the risk in the market and to the threat of account - destruction that results from over trading.

With threats of additional tariffs raising the prospects of a trade war, the major U.S. indexes moved lower over the past week.

Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Without Russia it would have died, but Putin signed because of economic threats over his membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO).

With European companies facing US penalties for trading with Iran, France and Germany sound the alarm over threats to their interests.

The bailouts, their obvious love of big businesses, big banks, big insurers, big health - care organizations over the small, the facilitation of such businesses moving overseas and then practicing unfair trade with us, the failure to go after white - collar criminals, their utter unconcern for the consumer who, after all, is supposed to be the party that the economy is supposed to serve... it's the Republicans * themselves * that are now clearly the major threat to the idea of the free market.

The status of a series of international trade deals which have been in the process of being negotiated over the last year has been placed under threat in a volatile political climate.

Clearly there will be downsides to the procedural changes: - UK trade mark applications will now be able to proceed to full registration without having first to overcome latent threats to their validity, introducing the potential for increased disputes over the validity of registered marks, with associated costs implications.

Over 1000 cryptocurrencies have come to the scene posing a huge threat to the monopolization of the Bitcoin trade.

Ryan and Louis discuss the direction of interest rates and inflation, the reluctance of the Fed to recognize the inflation threat, the impact of foreign countries raising their interest rates to combat inflation; the Fed's Vice Chairman Janis Yellen's view that inflation and the rise of commodities won't impact the «recovery», blaming rising global demand and disruptions of supply, not the easy money policy of the Fed; encouraging consumer confidence so they borrow more money to buy things they don't need to stimulate the economy, loan officer compensation, banks» use of Fed loans and banks» preference of trading operations over mortgage lending; credit squeeze; increased lending standards; the advantage of getting a low interest loan now before interest rates and inflation rates rise; the problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; the Democrats, Republicans and President avoid a government shutdown and what might have happened if it did; the $ 10 ′ s of billions of dollars saved in light of a $ 1.3 trillion defecit; the disconnect between buyers and sellers article in the Chicago Tribune; the HomeGain first quarter 2011 home values survey; the value of a quality Realtor in buying and selling a home; the HomeGain FSBO vs. REALTOR survey