Trade War Forces Tough Question for Retailers: Raise Prices or Eat the Cost?
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Trade War Forces Tough Question for Retailers: Raise Prices or Eat the Cost?

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Vivian Hoffman has worked in retail for a half-century, including 25 years as a buyer for Century 21 and the last eight running Whim, a chain selling affordable women’s clothing in the suburbs of New York City. She has adapted to recessions, the…

In U.S.- China Tariffs Standoff, Trump Showed Xi He Has Limits
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In U.S.- China Tariffs Standoff, Trump Showed Xi He Has Limits

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. “Be cool,” he told Americans. Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil, particularly a rapid…

Markets Worry About Finding an Exit From Trump’s Trade Fight
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Markets Worry About Finding an Exit From Trump’s Trade Fight

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The trade battle intensifies There’s no letup in sight to the trade war: This morning, China raised its tariffs on U.S. imports yet again. Beijing said it would not make economic sense to raise them further, and called the Trump administration’s dizzying tariffs…

Stocks waver on latest escalation in U.S.-China trade war.
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Stocks waver on latest escalation in U.S.-China trade war.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Stock markets shuddered on Friday as the trade war between the United States and China continued to escalate. The Stoxx Europe 600 index slipped 0.7 percent after China raised its tariffs on U.S. imports to 125 percent. The benchmark index in Germany, whose…

Opinion | This Instability May Be Worth It. Here’s Why.
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Opinion | This Instability May Be Worth It. Here’s Why.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines From New York Times. Opinion I’m Ross Douthat. And this is interesting times. Very interesting times, in fact, because just in time for the debut of this podcast, almost as if he planned it that way, Donald Trump has taken a sledgehammer to…

Stocks Jump in Asia After Trump’s Tariff Reprieve
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Stocks Jump in Asia After Trump’s Tariff Reprieve

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Following President Trump’s decision to pause punishing tariffs on dozens of countries, markets in Asia reacted predictably: Stocks soared in the countries that were spared. In early trading on Thursday, benchmark indexes rose more than 9 percent in Taiwan, 8 percent in Japan…

Trump Reverses Course on Global Tariffs, Announcing 90-Day Pause
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Trump Reverses Course on Global Tariffs, Announcing 90-Day Pause

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump on Wednesday abruptly reversed course on steep global tariffs that have roiled markets, upset members of his own party and raised fears of a recession. Just hours after he put punishing levies into place on nearly 60 countries, the president said…

Companies See China as a Safe Harbor Amid Trump’s Tariffs
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Companies See China as a Safe Harbor Amid Trump’s Tariffs

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Even as President Trump heaped additional tariffs on China, his barrage of trade levies on countries across Asia and unpredictability about what he might do next have encouraged some companies to hunker down in China, exactly the opposite of what he had hoped….