Mnuchin hopes to have a NAFTA agreement ‘very soon’
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC on Thursday a deal on NAFTA is coming in the near future. “We hope to have an agreement in principle, clearly, very soon. That’s the first priority,” Mnuchin said on “Squawk Box.” “I think...
US-China trade war: Idaho may be the biggest victim, but not for its potatoes
Idaho is the state most exposed to fallout from the U.S.-China trade war, even though its most famous product, potatoes, has so far been spared from the wrath of Beijing’s retaliatory strikes, according to a new study. China, which buys...
Mnuchin: Trump-Juncker talks pave way to ‘resolving a lot of these trade issues’
U.S. trade negotiations with the European Union formed the basis of a “real agreement” that will reduce tensions, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC on Thursday. Mnuchin spoke a day after the White House announced it had reached a general...
3 charts that show why the US should stop ignoring its debt problem
By most measures, the U.S. economic outlook is bright. GDP (gross domestic product) growth could exceed 4 percent in the second quarter, unemployment is at decade-lows and wages are ticking up. But one figure paints a darker picture: U.S. national...
‘Any number of catalysts could send bitcoin exploding higher,’ says blockchain venture capitalist
Bitcoin has seen strong gains over the last week — trading at about $8,200 as of the earlier hours of Thursday. But the largest digital currency by market cap still isn’t close to its December, 2017 high of $19,783.21....
After-hours buzz: FB, F & more
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Facebook plummeted more than 20 percent in after-hours trading. The social media giant reported mixed second-quarter results on Wednesday. It beat on earnings, posting $1.74 per share versus the...
FX: Pros look at best uses of rules-based order routing
Thomson Reuters announced earlier this month it had introduced RBOR to its REDI execution management system, enabling traders to set rules that determine which trades should be handled automatically rather than through manual intervention. The most common use case involves...
Tariffs are about to hit consumers, and it won’t be pretty
Tariffs the White House has levied thus far have fallen primarily on industrial supplies and components of other goods. That’s about to change, and consumers will feel the bite if the tariffs are implemented as planned. Economists at Societe Generale...
‘WTO is not broken,’ says WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo
As trade tensions heat up, World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo told CNBC, “The WTO is not broken. The WTO is functioning actually quite well.” Azevedo was responding to remarks by President Donald Trump’s chief economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, who...
Sens. Warren and Sanders introduce bill that would slash Puerto Rico’s debt
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Wednesday introduced a bill that would essentially wipe out tens of billions of dollars of Puerto Rico’s $73 billion in outstanding debt. The proposal, entitled the “U.S. Territorial Relief Act of 2018,” counts...
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