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US wants big changes for trade talks; Beijing says 'take gun off our head'
Sparking fears of a ballooning trade war, Washington on Tuesday threatened to target an additional $200 billion in imports and China immediately vowed to retaliate
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Escalating trade war may steer tax cuts' windfall to even more buybacks
Capital expenditures will likely continue to decline and buybacks will increase even if tensions between the United States and its trading partners cool off
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Who has the last laugh in trade war? Chances are, not US companies
Zero in on US companies with the highest exposure to China and the picture worsens
Trade war: China, US hint at resuming talks after Trump's new tariff threat
Washington and Beijing now have about seven weeks to strike a deal or dig in for a trade war that could upend corporate supply chains and raise prices for consumers around the world
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Why Donald Trump's policies are making Asian junk investors nervous
Liquidity in Asian high yield is so bad that, after a little haggling, a bond quoted at 94 cents on the dollar can be had for 91 cents
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Trump's tariff barrage pushes US-China trade war to point of no return
The Chinese Commerce Ministry said Tuesday that it would be forced to retaliate against what it called "totally unacceptable" US tariffs
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Donald Trump escalates China trade war with tariffs on $200-bn imports
The goal is to bring the total amount of Chinese imports up to 40 per cent of the total imported from the Asian power since the US products hit by Beijing's retaliation represent that share of exports
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US-China trade war a warm-up act for financial crisis: Mark Mobius
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index will likely fall another 10% from current levels by year-end, predicted Mobius
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Stocks, metals feel the heat as new US-China trade war rattles markets
Shanghai markets were hardest hit overnight, with stocks there down almost 2 per cent and the yuan weakening towards last week's 11-month lows, down 0.4 per cent to 6.66 per dollar
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China can hit US firms where it hurts in tariff response
China's imports from the US aren't large enough to match Trump's tariffs dollar for dollar, but the country has other levers it could use
From bedroom to garage, US-China trade war about to invade your home
Trump's initial tariffs on $34 billion of Made-in-China goods, which took effect on July 6, stayed clear of popular household products
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Tit-for-tat tariffs to destroy Sino-US trade: China on ballooning trade war
Washington said it was starting the process to slap 10% tariffs on another $200 bn in Chinese export goods as soon as September
Trump's trade war may be futile as China only makes approx $8.46 per iPhone
iPhone imports look like a big loss to the US, at least to the president, who argues that China has been taking out $500 billion a year out of US country and rebuilding China
 "Trump's trade war may be futile as China only makes approx $8.46 per iPhone")
German cars, American steak: First casualties of US-China trade war emerge
The ability of tariff-hit companies to weather the conflict may partly depend on the amount of stock they managed to import before higher levies kicked in
Trade wars risk spurring currency devaluations, increase US trade deficit
The MSCI Emerging Markets Currency Index has dropped about 6% since the start of April
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Oil, beans and steel: How raging trade wars would redraw global commerce
The new barriers, combined with tougher US sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, are threatening to upend trade routes carrying trillions of dollars of commodities annually
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Looking at Trump playbook for signs of metal rebound: Invesco's Jason Bloom
Trump's playbook has become pretty clear, and that is he takes an extreme position and he negotiates back from that position to a resolution, says Bloom
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As trade war mounts with China, US oil sellers may find new ally in India
To be sure, most Indian refineries are designed to process heavy, high-sulfur Iranian crude, which has been sanctioned
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US-China trade war 'deeply humiliating', says ZTE executive to staff
ZTE was found guilty in 2016 of having sold products with US technology to restricted countries including Iran, violating US export rules
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Consumers wary as China hits back with $35 billion trade war tariffs
On social media platform Weibo, word went around of a ship speeding toward China to beat the tariffs on its precious cargo: American soybeans
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