As China tightens its grip on rare earths exports, one of its most crucial bargaining chips, the global supply chain is showing cracks.
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The dollar decline comes just as a couple of other key US economic indicators have begun blinking red, too.
2025 is projected to be an unusually terrible year for the US travel industry — and only the US travel industry.
Keeping track of the Trump’s on-and-off tariff strategy was hard enough — and now the judicial system is having their turn at the switch.
While virtual care boomed during the pandemic, the sector more recently had an up-and-down couple of years as the world returned to normalcy.
The Fed was already walking a tightrope over a bottomless pit of stagflation before waves of tariffs came to rattle the line.
You can’t bounce back without first getting low. And, in April, consumer confidence according to the Conference Board got real low.
While the company didn’t mention the threat of tariffs, Nike is heavily exposed in China, home to roughly 24% of its suppliers.
Hanging over the proceedings is the countdown to July 8, when the US is poised to slam its allies with “reciprocal” tariffs.
US Treasurys have long been safe havens during financial market upheaval. President Trump’s sweeping import tariffs made them more volatile.
While a trade war bruised the US economy, China isn’t immune to the pain, and its leaders are growing more receptive to negotiation.
Fast-food chain McDonald’s, an economic indicator because of its mammoth global presence, posted its worst earnings report since 2020.
The biggest factor behind the slip in first-quarter GDP was Trump’s will-he-or-won’t-he, start-and-stop trade war.
Apple shifting production to India is just the latest sign that the world’s most populous nation may be a winner in global trade reordering.
To prepare for a slowdown of global trade, US retailers spent months building a massive inventory to prevent empty shelves.
IBM is booting up its domestic production, setting aside $150 billion to make computers in the US over the next five years.