World’s Largest Container Carrier “Unexpectedly” Has Big Loss in Crushed Industry. Now Trade War with China Looms by Wolf Richter • Feb 8, 2017 • 26 Comments It “would have a very negative effect on our business”: Maersk CEO
This Is How Out-Of-Whack US Trade Relationships Really Are by Wolf Richter • Feb 7, 2017 • 94 Comments After 25 years of apathy.
What the Heck Happened to Hanjin’s Ships and the Collapsed Freight Rates? by Wolf Richter • Jan 30, 2017 • 36 Comments Bankruptcy reveals “opaque ownership.” And freight rates surge.
This Mexican Company Could Make a Killing from Trump’s Policies by Don Quijones • Jan 27, 2017 • 51 Comments Business is Business.
How Trump Could Unwittingly Gut Boeing’s Global Business by Wolf Richter • Jan 16, 2017 • 94 Comments Other US companies are equally vulnerable.
Mauled by Peso Crash & Inflation, Mexico to Cut its Dependence on US Food Producers by Don Quijones • Jan 15, 2017 • 51 Comments It’s not all NAFTA’s fault, however.
What 1 Million US Jobs? Dreading a Trade War, China Sends Alibaba’s Jack Ma to Trump for some Fence Mending by Wolf Richter • Jan 9, 2017 • 71 Comments Carrot and Stick. Now a friendly chat among billionaires who presumably see eye-to-eye.
Trump Tweets, Ford & GM Counter, their Shares Jump, the Peso Plunges, but the Jobs Won’t “Come Back” to the USA by Wolf Richter • Jan 3, 2017 • 65 Comments Whacked by slow demand, Ford cancels plant in Mexico, shifts car production to existing plant in Mexico.
Canada’s Goods Producing Sector Caves by Wolf Richter • Dec 23, 2016 • 70 Comments Exports, particularly to the US get blamed, despite the crushed loonie.
World Trade Falls to 2014 Level, just in Time for a “Trade War” by Wolf Richter • Dec 23, 2016 • 105 Comments Threatened Trade War meets the Great Stagnation.
