Tag: donald trump

September 10, 2018

European and Asian markets were mostly lower on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested placing tariffs on an additional $267 billion in Chinese goods in a tit-for-tat dispute over trade. But a strong U.S. jobs report primed Wall Street […]

September 7, 2018

US President Donald Trump may not be entirely done with his trade war against China, but it looks as though he already has another target in his sights: Japan. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal late on […]

July 17, 2018

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, along with a fellow Republican and two Democratic lawmakers, introduced legislation in the Senate that’s aimed at allowing the government to bring lawsuits against OPEC members for antitrust violations. Lawmakers in the other chamber of Congress, […]

July 12, 2018

“REDUCE PRICING NOW!” That was President Donald Trump’s message to OPEC last week, adding that “gas prices are up & they are doing little to help.” It was just the latest in a string of tweets taking aim at the […]

June 27, 2018

President Donald Trump announced the details of a plan to crack down on Chinese investment in US technology companies, but the final results were weaker than expected. After fears that Trump would introduce harsh measures to curb Chinese investment in […]

June 19, 2018

Global stock markets fell Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump escalated a dispute with Beijing over technology policy by threatening a tariff hike on an additional $200 billion of Chinese goods. KEEPING SCORE: In early trading, Germany’s DAX plunged 1.8 […]

June 13, 2018

Global shares mostly fell Wednesday but Japan’s benchmark finished slightly higher after a muted market response to the U.S.-North Korean summit. Investors have now turned their eyes to this week’s three central bank meetings. KEEPING SCORE: France’s CAC 40 was […]

May 3, 2018

China is signaling that it won’t back down from a trade battle with President Donald Trump and the US. In an interview with Bloomberg, the CEO of one of the largest soybean processors in the world said China has effectively […]

March 14, 2018

Fears of a global trade war have been ratcheted up in recent days amid warnings from China that it won’t take President Donald Trump’s newly proposed tariffs lying down. Earlier in March, the nation said it will respond in kind […]

June 5, 2017

It’s a big asset. And President Donald Trump wants to grab it. The president’s 2018 budget, released last week, envisions selling 270 million of the 600-million-plus barrels of oil in the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR, to generate about […]

May 23, 2017

The White House on Tuesday will release its budget blueprint for the 2018 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. Titled “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” the budget calls for $3.6 trillion in spending reductions to balance the budget by […]

April 26, 2017

Donald Trump built a winning campaign around his negotiating prowess, but his first three months in the White House have shown Wall Street that even the new president can’t deliver great deals overnight. That won’t kill the momentum in dealmaking advisory […]

January 11, 2017

School choice advocates are waffling between excitement for potentially unprecedented new opportunities under a Donald Trump administration, and concern that the president-elect could also dramatically undermine the school choice movement. Trump’s promise on the campaign trail to spend $20 billion […]

December 12, 2016

Donald Trump and Republican leaders are fond of blaming Obamacare for many of America’s economic woes. “The first thing we have to do is pry the enormous weight of Obamacare off the national economy,” Vice President-elect Mike Pence said on […]

December 12, 2016

DONALD TRUMP promises to deliver 25m jobs over the next decade, 18m more than is forecast today. In our print edition, we have consistently argued that this is infeasible, because America is ageing rapidly: Arithmetic suggests this pledge is fanciful: […]

January 11, 2016

Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump gave his supporters some free investing advice at a Thursday-night campaign rally: Be cautious. “Be very conservative, because it could be very rough out there,” Trump said. “And who can fix things better than me?” The […]

December 23, 2015

Donald Trump’s bold talk and unpredictability may have propelled him to a big lead in the Republican primary, but it’s creating a lot of anxiety on Wall Street. That’s because more than any other major candidate running for the White […]

December 16, 2015

Tuesday’s CNN debate is set to be a slugfest between frontrunner Donald Trump and the surging Ted Cruz. Personality matters, but it’s not enough. Voters want someone who can handle the economy. Republicans are “anxious” about the economy — more […]

September 3, 2015

According to a lengthy analysis by a correspondent for National Journal, real-estate mogul turned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was always going to be a billionaire — whether he worked for it or not. As reporter S.V. Dáte notes, Trump […]