The euro made a marginal new low early in European turnover and held barely above the spike low on March 1 to $1.2155. So far, today is the first session since January 11 that the...
Through Republican and Democrat Administrations, no US president has found that a foreign country’s activities have risen to the level that can be considered manipulation for nearly a quarter of a century. Initially, the law...
Whiplashed? Last weekend, President Trump threatened again to walk away from NAFTA. Within 48 hours, reports suggest he wanted an agreement at next week’s Summit of the America (April 13-14 in Peru). The art of...
The US and South Korea struck an important agreement this week. Many are recognizing it as the first success of President Trump’s trade strategy and a turning point in general. It is being offered as an...
US President Donald Trump has announced a raft of new tariffs against China over intellectual-property violations, targeting more than 100 different Chinese goods and potentially inviting a fierce response from Beijing. In what White House...
The two-day gathering in Argentina comes at a tense moment, just a few days before the US will impose higher tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and new US trade measures reportedly targeted at China....
Opportunity Costs exists in Trade but if trade is seen as a Comparative Cost Advantage theory of Ricardo, its more supplementing rather than complimenting the growth process of each country’s GDP. Ricardo proposed that amongst all...
In response to the resignation of one of the few “globalist” advisers in the US Administration, the resignation Cohn has sent ripples through the capital markets. Stocks have been marked down across the world. The...
Among the first acts on trade by the new US Administration was to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral trade pact. Trump’s opposition to TPP was well-known, but less appreciated by his critics, is that...
Australia, the US, India and Japan are talking about plans for a regional scheme to counterbalance China’s growing influence, a report says. A US official spoke of an “alternative” rather than a “rival” plan. Australia,...
There is an unease that continues to hang over the market. It is as if a shoe fell last week, and most investors seem to be waiting for the other shoe to drop. It is...
With all this wailing in the media about stocks, you’d think there’s at least some blood in the streets. But no. Not a drop. The Dow fell 4.6% today to 24,345. This 1,175-point drop, as...