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“Black friday in summer” sale steep discounts boosts US online sales  WION Source link

India has reportedly offered the US steep tariff cuts but is seeking to retain high duties on some agricultural commodities, such as food grains and dairy products, according to a report in the FT on Wednesday. India is not the only trading . . .

Chinese exports to the U.S. plunged in April, as steep tariffs on China make it too costly for many U.S.-based retailers to import goods from the country. President Trump ratcheted up his trade war with Beijing in April, hiking tariffs on Chinese goods to up to 145%. China retaliated with 125% levies on Americans goods.  […]

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 market. Naturally, they are looking for the next big thing. Statistically speaking, that would mean China. The E.U. has the second-largest consumer market in the world behind America; China is […]

Steep fall in price of eggs prompts questions for US producers  Financial Times Source link

China’s stock benchmark closed at its highest since mid-December amid growing optimism for more Beijing policy support and a rising appetite for Chinese names from global investors. Shanghai’s CSI 300 jumped 2.4% as investors dived into consumer . . .

When President Trump threatened tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China in January, saying those countries needed to do more to stop the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States, Canadian and Mexican officials raced to Washington, bearing charts and videos detailing their efforts to toughen their borders. Canada created a “fentanyl czar” and […]

After Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration on Monday, Canadians will learn whether he intends to follow through on his threat to immediately impose 25 percent tariffs on exports from Canada to the United States. Many people here have told me they are looking forward to the details of the federal government’s response to any American […]

The number of murders reported in the United States dropped in 2023 at the fastest rate on record, continuing a decline from the surge in homicides during the pandemic, the F.B.I. reported on Monday. The F.B.I.’s report, which is the agency’s final compilation of crime data for 2023, showed that there were about 2,500 fewer […]

(Bloomberg) — The US housing market — long crippled by an inventory drought — is finally starting to see listings rise. But now, in many places, the buyers just aren’t showing up. Most Read from Bloomberg Sellers are grappling with the fact that higher-for-longer rates are choking off demand during what’s typically the key season […]


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