The promise of faster economic growth has become a study in the triumph of hope over experience. While the June jobs report, coming on Friday, is expected to show that hiring continued at a healthy pace last month, other recent indicators in areas like consumer spending, construction and auto sales have been decidedly less robust. […]
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UK cannot leave single market and keep all its benefits, EU chief negotiator says
The U.K. cannot expect to leave the single market and keep all of its trade benefits, the European Commission’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Thursday. Barnier told an EU business forum in Brussels that “frictionless trade” between Europe and the U.K. would “not (be) possible” if the U.K. decided to leave the EU’s […]
Read more[The stream is slated to start at 7:10 a.m., ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump speaks Thursday morning in Poland. The remarks in Warsaw come ahead of the G-20 summit in Germany, where the president will face talks with his counterparts about […]
Read moreJapan and the European Union have formally agreed an outline free trade deal which will ease the movement of goods between two of the world’s largest economies. The pact, though still requiring some further negotiation, is scheduled to come into effect in early-2019 and will guarantee tariff-free trade between businesses within the two regions. Japanese […]
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Trump claims Russia could have ‘very well’ interfered in the US election
President Donald Trump thinks that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election but also believes that there could have been other countries involved. “Well I think it was Russia and I think it could have been other people and other countries. It could have been a lot of people that interfered,” Trump said at a […]
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FREE-TRADE agreements have seemed out of fashion as President Donald Trump has set about scotching some of America’s. But on July 5th Cecilia Malmström, the EU trade commissioner, and Fumio Kishida, the Japanese foreign minister, announced they had achieved consensus on a Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (JEEPA). In front of the cameras, they swapped Japanese […]
Read morePresident Donald Trump has called on his foreign allies to take action against North Korea’s missile threat. Speaking in Warsaw in Poland Thursday, where Trump is meeting with his NATO partners, the U.S. president said that North Korea is behaving in a “very, very dangerous manner” and that something needs to be done about it. […]
Read moreU.K. Foreign Minister Boris Johnson has praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter, suggesting he would like a degree of freedom. “I think actually that Donald Trump’s approach to politics has been something that has gripped the imagination of people around the world. He’s engaged people in politics in a way that we haven’t […]
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Trump to say 'fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive'
U.S. President Donald Trump will praise individual freedom and sovereignty on Thursday in what seem to be comments directed squarely at the Europe Union. Excerpts of the speech in Warsaw, Poland, were released by the White House on Thursday morning and show that President Trump will condemn government bureaucracy. “On both sides of the Atlantic, […]
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This weekend marks a number of hotly anticipated first encounters between world leaders, but chief among them will be that of Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pair’s first face-to-face meeting, due to take place on the summit’s sidelines on Friday morning, will be closely watched at a time when ties between the two […]
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