Tag: Trump administration

July 21, 2020

WASHINGTON — Less than a quarter of adults believe the U.S. economy is “excellent” or “good” as the coronavirus pandemic and economic anxiety related to its spread loom large, new data from the NBC News|SurveyMonkey tracking poll show. Overall, just […]

March 11, 2020

Americans might have a little longer to file their taxes, thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The Trump administration is likely to extend the filing deadline for taxes in 2020 beyond April 15, the Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday. The […]

May 23, 2019

Tensions between the United States and China continued to weigh on global markets on Thursday, and Wall Street was expected to open lower. Investors appeared to be reacting to a growing sense that the trade war between Washington and Beijing […]

May 14, 2019

For nearly a century, the St. Pierre Manufacturing Corporation has made products such as horseshoes, tire chains, and anchors in a facility near Worcester, Mass. But in recent months, St. Pierre has been struggling. Why? Increased tariffs on goods from […]

February 6, 2019

Ahead of anticipated trade talks between Washington and Brussels, expectations appear to be miles apart. The two sides have long sought to rearrange their bilateral trade partnership, which is the largest in the world. But preliminary back-and-forths have suggested a […]

January 28, 2019

The Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion in tax cuts appears to have not made any major impact on businesses’ capital investment or hiring plans, according to a new survey. A quarterly poll from the National Association for Business Economics published Monday […]

December 10, 2018

When General Motors announced plant closings and a 15% workforce cut, the plan was to plow savings into electric and autonomous vehicle development, which is seen as the industry’s future. But selling electric vehicles (EVs) will get tough without a […]

September 6, 2018

Global markets were mixed Thursday on worries that the U.S. is on the verge of imposing tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods in a mounting trade dispute. Many developing countries are in financial turmoil as rising interest rates […]

August 8, 2018

The Trump administration just announced tariffs on another $16 billion in Chinese imports to the U.S. This latest round makes good on the president’s promise in June to impose a 25% tariff on $50 billion in Chinese goods. An earlier […]

August 2, 2018

Trade tensions weighed on Asian markets on Thursday, as benchmark stock indexes in the region fell after the Trump administration said it would consider more than doubling proposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. China’s main stock index […]

June 1, 2018

The consequences of the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs are already being felt across global markets. But the makers of one iconic American product say they stand to suffer more than most — bourbon whiskey distillers. The European Union […]

April 5, 2018

Like a good thriller, you can’t be sure where the stock market is headed these days until the very end. The market has become so volatile that big swings are happening not only day to day but hour to hour […]

November 3, 2017

America’s job market got back on its feet in October. The U.S. economy rebounded from the hurricanes and added 261,000 jobs, the best performance of the Trump administration. Unemployment inched down to 4.1%, the lowest since December 2000. “This labor […]