According to a majority of economists polled by Reuters, the United States has been brought forward to the next recession because of the recent escalation in the US-China trade war. The economists said they now expect that the US Federal Reserve would cut rates in September and another sometime...

United States President Donald Trump is not yet ready to get into a trade agreement with China, he said on Friday, and even questioned the justification of a September round of trade talks. Those comments spooked the financial markets that now fear that a the trade way between the two largest...

Despite the effect of US duties, the volume of exports from China in July increased by 3.3% compared to the same period last year (against a decline of 1.3% in June), to $ 221.5 billion, according to the Ministry of Commerce of China. Month-to-month deliveries abroad in July grew by 2.3% (not...

Following the latest escalation in the trade war between the United States and China with the announcement of Trump of imposing a fresh round of tariffs on Chinese goods and China alleging letting its currency fall freely to cushion the impact of the trade war, the biggest possible hint so far that...

Cyber attacks had been used by North Korea to steal $2 billion to fund its weapons program, claimed reports citing a leaked report of the United Nations.   The report claimed that the banks and crypto-currency exchanges were targeted by official hackers from Pyongyang for collecting money....

Even while the United States and China get in a war of words related to the devaluation of the Chinese currency yuan with Washington officially identifying Beijing as a currency manipulator, US electric vehicles manufacturer Tesla Inc is reportedly contemplating increasing the price of its cars in...

There was a more than expected fall in the June numbers for German industrial output primarily because of some significant fall in car-making and metal production. This has raised concerns among some that it could be signaling an impending Eurozone recession.   This drop in the June numbers...

It is not likely that the United States and China would end their trade war and come to an agreement on a trade deal before the November 2020 US presidential election, said Goldman Sachs. The US lender said this prediction was based on the “harder line” on the issue that was being adopted by policy...

Predictions by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA) estimated that if Iranian oil is bought by China as a measure to retaliate to the latest United States tariff measures, the price of a barrel of crude oil could drop by as much as $30.   “While we retain our $60 a barrel Brent forecast...