Trade War

Cargill Net Earnings Drop 20%, Revenues Fall As Trade Fight Bites

Grains trader Cargill Inc on Thursday reported a 20% drop in its fiscal second-quarter 2019 net earnings, as global trade tensions hit the bottom line alon...

Dollar General Cuts Full-Year Forecast, Warns Of Tariff Hit

Dollar General Corp. cut its full-year profit and sales forecasts on Tuesday and warned that proposed tariffs on Chinese imports could begin to have a grea...

Soybeans Climb To Highest Since June On US-China Trade Truce

Chicago soybeans jumped on Monday, to their highest in almost six months, rising 1.9% after Washington and Beijing agreed a 90-day truce that will permit t...

Putin Says Russia Will Supply Soy Beans, Poultry Meat To China

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would supply soy beans and poultry meat to China and that the United States had effectivel...

Alibaba Cuts Sales Forecast On Economic Uncertainty, Trade Fears

China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd lowered its full-year sales forecast on Friday due to concerns about the economic impact of a US-China trade spat, which...

U.S. Tariffs Loom At China's Biggest Trade Fair

Amid gathering gloom over the state of the Chinese economy, exporters of motorcycles, tractors, photocopiers and Christmas tree lighting will join thousand...

US-China Trade War Triggers Seafood Supply Chain Shake-Up

The US-China trade war has triggered a seafood supply chain shake-up, with US importers scrambling to stockpile frozen Chinese squid and tilapia...

Walmart Warns Trump Tariffs May Force Price Hikes

Walmart Inc said that it may hike prices of products if the Trump administration imposes a tariff on Chinese imports, according to a letter the company wro...