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.
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.
A plummeting Australian dollar could force a rethink of interest rate cuts and increase the cost of essential items,market analysts have warned.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
A big change in the Federal Reserve’s thinking triggered a bloodbath on Wall Street that has spread around the world.
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.
China’s 21st-century auto technology is causing turmoil for the big established US,Japanese and European carmakers.