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Trump plugs his trade policies to farmers in Louisiana amid U.S. shutdown
President Donald Trump on Monday left a city shut down by a funding dispute with Congress and the year's first snowfall to promote his trade policies and the new farm law at a farm convention in Louisiana. Trump arrived just outside of New Orleans behind ...
'Fork in the road': Top U.S. grocer says America's nervous about economic future
America's biggest supermarket chain is seeing signs that U.S. shoppers are getting nervous about the future. "It's fascinating right now from a customer standpoint. They feel incredibly good about the economy but very nervous about where things are headed," Kroger Co. Chief Executive Officer Rodney ...
U.S. and Chinese negotiators wrapped up three days of talks aimed at ending a costly tariff battle in an optimistic atmosphere Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said they were "going very well!" No details were immediately announced, but Asian stock markets rose on news ...
No white flags seen as U.S. negotiators begin trade war talks in Beijing
U.S. and Chinese negotiators on Monday held their first face-to-face talks since the world's two largest economies agreed to a truce aimed at resolving their trade dispute. The visiting delegation, led by Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish, left its hotel in Beijing Monday morning ...
CES 2019: Chinese tech firms keep low profile amid trade tensions
The CES 2019 gadget show, which kicked off Sunday, will showcase the expanding influence and sway of China's rapidly growing technology sector. But some of its firms are stepping back from the spotlight amid rising U.S. national security concerns over Chinese tech and a ...
U.S. factories, hiring expanded at slowest pace in more than two years as Trump trade war hits home
American factories grew last month at the slowest pace in more than two years, with some manufacturers complaining about the impact of President Donald Trump's contentious trade policies. The Institute for Supply Management, an association of purchasing managers, said Thursday that its manufacturing index dropped ...
'Red flag': U.S. stocks face another big fall after Apple's warning over China slide amid trade war
Apple's shock warning that its Chinese sales are weakening ratcheted up concerns about the world's second largest economy and weighed heavily on global stock markets as well as the dollar on Thursday. In a letter to shareholders on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said iPhone ...
U.S.-China trade war, demand slump taking toll on global manufacturing
Factory activity weakened across much of Europe and Asia in December as the U.S.-led trade war and a slowdown in demand hit production in many economies, offering little reason for optimism as the new year begins. A series of purchasing managers' indexes for December released ...
Jimmy Carter says U.S. and China should partner in Africa development, not slide into new Cold War
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter warned Monday of the risks of sliding into a Cold War with China and called on the powers to find common cause on African development. Marking the 40th anniversary of his January 1979 normalization of relations with Chinese leader Deng ...
The Japan Times newsroom selected the following business news stories as the most important of 2018.
China factory output shrank for the first time in two years in run-up to Trump trade war talks
China's factory activity shrank in December for the first time in more than two years, an official survey showed Monday, intensifying pressure on Beijing to reverse an economic slowdown as it enters trade talks with the Trump administration. The purchasing managers' index of the National ...
Humming U.S. factories end 2018 on sour note as five Fed indexes slip, Trump trade worries surge
Five Federal Reserve indexes of regional manufacturing all slumped in December, the first time they've fallen in unison since May 2016 and the latest evidence that a pillar of the U.S. economy has started to wobble heading into next year. The Dallas Fed's factory index ...
