What does this escalating trade conflict mean for the world economy? The trade in goods between the two economic powers added up to around $585bn (£429bn) last year. Though the US imported far ...

A bond slump days earlier helped push Trump to delay some tariffs. A selloff hit U.S. Treasury bonds on Friday, sending yields above levels reached two days earlier when they helped trigger ...

Geoff Raby, Canberra’s chief envoy to Beijing between 2007 and 2011, said more fiscal pump priming and monetary easing would ease the pain for the Chinese economy as President Xi Jinping and his ...

The tariff for India, another big economy, was 26 percent. The Philippines faces a 17-percent tariff—the second lowest among Asean nations after Singapore’s 10 percent. China responded by imposing an ...

China will impose additional 50 per cent tariffs on all American imports in response to a similar level of tariff increases on its goods from US President Donald Trump, marking what threatens to ...

The World Travel & Tourism Council’s (WTTC) latest Economic Impact Research expects the travel and tourism industry to employ one in eight people globally and generate 11 percent of the world’s GDP by ...

Stock declines can be a signal of future trouble in the economy, though not always a reliable one. Sometimes the market swoons and a recession ensues, as after the 2000 dot-com crash. Sometimes ...

Widespread tariffs could obstruct Oregon’s economy and deal a blow to the state’s manufacturing sector — similar to how import taxes affected the state during the first Trump administration.

“Don’t borrow to invest and don’t invest money that you might need right away,” Ziemba said. “For now, tit-for-tat is on, and the global economy will be challenged by it,” she added.

He added that India, being largely a consumption-led economy, may not be as severely impacted by the US tariffs compared to some other countries. On Tuesday, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs ...

This is what Republicans voted for. From the beginning, Trump has been open about his plan to implement tariffs that were destined to tank the economy. Now it’s actually happening, and the ...

In response, households are pulling back on their spending—meaning that they are slowing the economy down, making an actual recession far more likely. A sudden increase in gas prices ...