Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs in April.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images America’s trade partners swept into Washington over the summer hoping to cement new pacts that would yield certainty for their exporters and prevent their economies from plunging into recession. Instead, they’re now…
The authorities in Hong Kong have refused to extend the employment visa of a Bloomberg journalist, effectively expelling her from the Chinese territory where she has lived and worked for six years. Rebecca Choong Wilkins, a reporter on the financial newswire’s Asia government and politics team, was applying for a routine visa renewal when she…
Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. Open this photo in gallery: Global EV sales have softened recently while the regulatory environment, particularly in the U.S., has soured significantly.Carolyn Kaster/The Associated Press Ford Motor F-N calls its new electric vehicle initiative a “Model T moment” because of what the company says…
Open this photo in gallery: Canadian stocks typically trade at valuations well below that of U.S. ones, especially with the current Wall Street euphoria.Julia Demaree Nikhinson/The Associated Press The U.S. stock market has lost touch with reality. Consider the evidence: Over the past couple of weeks, investors have seen strong indications that the U.S. economy…
Open this photo in gallery: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The Fed is widely expected to hold interest rates steady in its monetary policy decision on Wednesday.Julia Demaree Nikhinson/The Associated Press A looming U.S. deadline for more severe global tariffs is among a barrage of upcoming events threatening to disrupt an increasingly calm U.S. stock…
Open this photo in gallery: RxFood is an AI-driven app that assess photos of user’s food for a variety of nutritional measures – such as calories, protein and carbs – and suggests tips to improve their eating habits.Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail Alan Levine struggled for years to track what he ate. Even though he…
A daily rundown of the economic reports and corporate earnings that will be grabbing the market’s attention in the week ahead Monday July 21 830 am ET: Canada industrial product price index and raw materials price index 10 am ET: U.S. leading indicator for June 1030 am ET: Bank of Canada business outlook survey and…
Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney made it pretty clear that President Donald Trump will accept no agreement that limits the use of tariffs as his cornerstone policy.Rob Gurdebeke/The Canadian Press Lawrence Herman is an international lawyer with Herman & Associates and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto….
Open this photo in gallery: More attention is being turned to the health benefits of fibre, with some dubbing the trend ‘fibremaxxing.’iStock Isheeta Borkar has always been fairly health-conscious. Earlier this year, however, the 33-year-old began seeing a number of fibre-focused social-media posts that made her pause and take stock of her diet. There was…
Open this photo in gallery: Financial news plays in the background as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading, on April 21, in New York City.Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump roiled markets by reigniting his public tirade against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, sending everything…