China just waved a $1.6 trillion red rag at Trump

China just waved a $1.6 trillion red rag at Trump

A week before Donald Trump regains the White House with a cabinet full of trade hawks,China has released figures sure to enrage the incoming president.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz

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Donald Trump is driving interest rates up around the globe

Donald Trump is driving interest rates up around the globe

Fears that the president-elect’s “America First” agenda will rekindle inflation and unleash economic damage have rattled bond markets and driven the US dollar sharply higher.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Petrol prices and interest rate cuts at risk as dollar hits record low

Petrol prices and interest rate cuts at risk as dollar hits record low

A plummeting Australian dollar could force a rethink of interest rate cuts and increase the cost of essential items,market analysts have warned.

  • byDaniel Lo Surdo
‘Trump hates China more’:Mexicans bet that Trump is bluffing on tariffs

‘Trump hates China more’:Mexicans bet that Trump is bluffing on tariffs

As Donald Trump vows an expanded trade war,Mexican businesses are continuing with factory expansions. They assume Mexico remains central to America’s goal to be less dependent on China.

  • byPeter S. Goodman
Wall Street sees more gains ahead after another bumper year for stocks

Wall Street sees more gains ahead after another bumper year for stocks

Investors are heading into 2025 in an optimistic mood,believing that with the economy on a firm footing and the White House in their corner,the stock market will continue to climb.

  • byJoe Rennison
Chinese companies have sidestepped Trump’s tariffs. They could do it again.

Chinese companies have sidestepped Trump’s tariffs. They could do it again.

China’s exporters have found plenty of new channels to the US market — demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.

  • byAna Swanson
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How has the 21st century gone so wrong?

How has the 21st century gone so wrong?

How did we get here,and what are the chances that the next 25 years will be better than the last?

  • byAdrian Wooldridge
How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can resolve US-China relations

How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can resolve US-China relations

While we were sleeping,China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything. Will China bury us? That is not at all inevitable.

  • byThomas L. Friedman
The Trump shadow hanging over Wall Street’s meltdown

The Trump shadow hanging over Wall Street’s meltdown

A big change in the Federal Reserve’s thinking triggered a bloodbath on Wall Street that has spread around the world.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
China is already in deep trouble. Trump will make things worse

China is already in deep trouble. Trump will make things worse

China is considering a range of ideas to fix its economic mess. It may have to take more radical and painful measures if Donald Trump starts a new trade war.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
China is leaving Europe’s and America’s carmakers in the dust in the EV race

China is leaving Europe’s and America’s carmakers in the dust in the EV race

China’s 21st-century auto technology is causing turmoil for the big established US,Japanese and European carmakers.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz