Presidents of China and Brazil hail ‘new phase’ in relations between two countries, which are major trading partners. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have inked dozens of trade and development deals, as the pair held talks in Brazil’s capital aimed at deepening ties between the two countries….
HONOLULU (Island News) – The Department of Emergency Management reported that an outage occurred for Honolulu’s 911 system on Sunday, November 17, 2024. Officials state that the system is currently down for customers using certain cell providers, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. The public is advised to contact 911 by using a landline phone. For…
A ship carries shipping containers through Upper Bay in New York, U.S., September 30, 2024. Caitlin Ochs | Reuters Donald Trump’s U.S. election win has left Europe scrabbling to work out how it will be able to contain or counter highly probable tariffs on its exports to the U.S. once the president-elect enters the White…
When anyone asks me to recommend one book on investing, the answer is simple: Benjamin Graham’s venerated “The Intelligent Investor.” The classic written by Graham, the father of financial analysis and value investing, was first published in 1949. One superstar devotee of Graham is Warren Buffett, who was one of his students at Columbia University….
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union has finalized its sharply higher customs duties on electric vehicles imported from China. EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and Beijing’s burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation bloc. The duties took effect provisionally in July and were…
Foreign secretary’s visit aims to shore up trade ties while challenging Beijing on support for Russia’s war in Ukraine. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has kicked off a two-day trip to China billed as a “pragmatic” reset of relations amid rising tensions over issues like Beijing’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Lammy met Chinese…
A Chinese national flag, left, and an Indian national flag are arranged for a photograph. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images India’s commerce minister rejected the idea of joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the world’s largest trade deal, maintaining that it is not in the country’s interest to be part of a free trade…
Both major US presidential candidates fundamentally agree on international trade objectives, former American trade officials said on Thursday, but look for more threats, posturing and volatile tariff barriers under a Donald Trump 2.0 administration, particularly against China. Since then, campaigning has cast international trade in decidedly domestic terms, with Trump threatening to impose up to…