It was much worse than expected. President Trump’s attempt to reverse the rules of global trade through sweeping tariffs against dozens of nations, including major… Read More »A Tariffs Cheat Sheet – The New York Times
The nation that the Trump administration slapped with the heftiest tariff this week is a small, rural, landlocked country in southern Africa that is among… Read More »Lesotho, a Small African Nation, Expects a Big Hit From Trump’s Tariffs
The notion that the Federal Reserve will rush in to rescue investors in a crisis has comforted investors for decades. But in the big market… Read More »The Fed Isn’t Rushing to Save the Markets This Time
The European Union, taken as a whole, is America’s biggest trading partner. That makes President Trump’s fresh tariffs especially painful for the 27-nation bloc —… Read More »Europe Has Economic Power. Can It Use It Against Trump’s Tariffs?
I went to Costco on a tariff run, and did not stock up on anything. It was tempting. Mark Cuban was on social media telling… Read More »Tempted by Trump’s Tariffs to Panic-Buy? Don’t.
The Japanese video game company Nintendo said on Friday that it would delay preorders for its new console, the Switch 2, in the United States… Read More »Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders, Citing Trump’s Tariffs
For years, countries like Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand have worked to turn themselves into alternatives to China for factories making the bags, electronics, shoes and… Read More »Trump Took a Wrecking Ball to Southeast Asia’s Role as an Alternative to China
Bostonians like to brag about their celebrities with big personalities — David Ortiz, Mindy Kaling, Mark Wahlberg, to name a few. And then there’s Eliot… Read More »New England’s King of Couches Relinquishes His Crown
Of all the countries that expected to be immune to President Trump’s tariffs, Switzerland was at the top of the list. The tiny Alpine nation,… Read More »Swiss Indignant to Make the Top 10 of Trump’s Tariffs List
The U.S. agricultural industry is bracing for the potential of tens of billions of dollars in losses after China on Friday announced a 34 percent… Read More »U.S. Farmers Brace for Losses in New Trade War With China
More than 500 law firms on Friday threw their support behind some of their embattled peers, declaring that President Trump’s recent crackdown on the law… Read More »More Than 500 Law Firms Back Perkins Coie in Fight With Trump
At 11 a.m. on Friday, the S&P 500 was down about 4 percent, on top of a nearly 5 percent drop the day before. On… Read More »As Markets Plunge Over Trump Tariffs, All Is Calm on Fox News
Some Republican senators on Capitol Hill, including one of President Trump’s most ardent supporters, have signaled their uneasiness to the sweeping global tariffs that the… Read More »Ted Cruz and Other Senate Republicans Question Trump’s Tariffs
Investors around the globe this week sent President Trump a clear message about his new tariff policy, announced triumphantly as a remaking of the economic… Read More »Stocks Tumble as Investors Balk at Tariff Plan
Republicans in Congress cannot use an obscure legislative maneuver to stop California’s ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, the Senate parliamentarian… Read More »Republican Plan to Kill California’s E.V. Policies Hits Senate Snag
Many oil and gas executives thought they had hit pay dirt with President Trump’s election. A Trump administration would be staffed by people sympathetic to… Read More »‘Wait, Baby, Wait’: Slumping Oil Prices Reflect Economic Worries
Two days after President Trump announced his expansive global tariffs, the United States confronted wide-ranging blowback, with China retaliating against American goods and markets falling… Read More »Trump Is Defiant as Tariff Moves Roil Markets a Second Day
Sizing up what President Trump’s new tariffs mean for India was a puzzle from the start for even the country’s top trade economists. Its politicians,… Read More »Trump Calls India a Friend, but Is Trying to Block Its Imports
U.S. employers accelerated hiring in March, a surprising show of strength that analysts warned might be the high-water mark for the labor market as the… Read More »U.S. Employers Added 228,000 Jobs in March, but Outlook Is Clouded
Follow live updates on today’s jobs report and the global market turmoil from Trump’s tariffs. Volkswagen, the German automaker, has told its car dealers that… Read More »After Trump Tariffs, Volkswagen to Add ‘Import Fees’ to Cars Sold in U.S.
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, warned that President Trump’s tariffs risk stoking even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected, as… Read More »Powell Warns Trump’s Tariffs Risk Stoking Even Higher Inflation and Slower Growth
President Trump’s tariffs mean that companies across the European Union and around the world are at risk of losing access to the world’s largest consumer… Read More »Live Updates: Stock Rout Intensifies as China Retaliates for Trump Tariffs
“Inflation is a low drip, like boiling a frog: The impact kind of creeps up on you, but when it hits, it doesn’t feel good,”… Read More »How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge
Oil prices continued to fall on Friday, extending Thursday’s sharp drop. Brent crude, the international benchmark, traded at its lowest level in more than three… Read More »Slumping oil prices reflect intensifying economic worries.
President Trump’s tariffs mean that companies across the European Union and around the world are at risk of losing access to the world’s largest consumer… Read More »What Will Trump’s Tariffs Do to EU-China Trade Relations?
The Chinese government will match President Trump’s plan for 34 percent tariffs on goods from China with its own 34 percent tariff on imports from… Read More »China Retaliates Against Trump With 34% Tariff on U.S. Goods
In the weeks leading up to his expansive global tariffs, President Trump and his top aides tried to prime the public for economic pain. They… Read More »Trump Officials Warn of Tariff Pain as Price Increases Loom and Stocks Tumble
The mood has darkened in the U.S. stock market, and no wonder. Pessimism about the Trump tariffs has set off painful declines. But the picture… Read More »With the Worst U.S. Stock Market In Years, Try Some Old-Fashioned Investments
President Trump announced what could be one of the most drastic economic policy changes in decades on Wednesday, when he substituted America’s longstanding system of… Read More »Why Did Trump Impose Tariffs, and What’s Next? Everything to Know.
President Trump upended the international trading system on Wednesday with a blunt package of global tariffs, making the case that the United States faces a… Read More »Trump’s Tariffs Follow Anger Over Trade Imbalances and Lost Manufacturing Jobs