Trade War

US Farmers Experimenting With Hemp As China Trade War Drags On

A growing number of US farmers battered by low grain prices and the threat of a prolonged trade war with China are seeking salvation in a plant that until...

Costco Looking At Alternative Sourcing, Price Hikes As Tariffs Loom

Costco Wholesale Corp reported quarterly profit and revenue that beat Wall Street estimates and said it would tackle the proposed round of tariffs on Chine...

US Plans More Aid For Farmers Amid China Trade Spat

US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has said that President Donald Trump asked him to create a plan to help American farmers cope with the heavy impact o...

Louis Dreyfus Results To Gauge Turnaround Effort, Trade-War Fallout

Agricultural trader Louis Dreyfus Company will be in the spotlight next week as its annual results indicate whether it has recovered from a bruising period...

China Pork Producer WH Group's Quarterly Profit Falls 7%

China's WH Group said its fourth-quarter net profit fell 7% to $290 million (€256.43 million), as low pig prices in China and the Sino-US trade war hi...

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...