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Trump orders U.S. firms out of China after Beijing sets new tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he has ordered American companies to exit China after Beijing unveiled retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods, throwing a new twist into the bitter trade war between the world's two largest economies.



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U.S. Chamber of Commerce rejects Trump call on business with China

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce rebuffed President Donald Trump's call Friday that U.S. businesses begin immediately looking for alternatives for operations in China after China said it was imposing new retaliatory tariffs.



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Policy rule could help shield Fed from Trump pressure: economist

The Federal Reserve ought to adopt a monetary policy rule to guide its interest-rate-setting decisions in part as a bulwark against a near daily barrage of presidential criticism, a widely respected economist told Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other central bankers on Friday.



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Ghosts of 2002 'corralito' spur Argentines to shun banks, stash cash at home

It happened in 1989. It happened in 2002. Argentines who are old enough to remember do not want to go through it again.



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Trump tweetstorm sinks Wall Street as trade war rages on

Wall Street plunged in a broad sell-off on Friday as China and the United States traded their latest salvos in a prolonged trade war, spooking investors and erasing slight gains following a generally positive speech by U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.



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U.S. trade group says 'unrealistic' for American retailers to exit China

The U.S. National Retail Federation (NRF) said on Friday it is "unrealistic" for American retailers to move out of China, the world's second-largest economy, as 95% of the world's consumers live outside the United States.



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Trump calls on U.S. firms to exit China as trade war escalates

President Donald Trump on Friday pressured U.S. companies to leave China after Beijing unveiled retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods, stoking fears their escalating trade war will tip the global economy into recession.



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Responding to Trump, UPS and FedEx say they already fight illegal drug shipments

FedEx Corp and United Parcel Service Inc said on Friday they already work closely with law enforcement to stop illegal shipments from entering the country after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered delivery firms to refuse packages of the powerful painkiller fentanyl from China.



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On-off trade tariffs wreak havoc on U.S. company planning

Win Cramer thought his company was out of the firing line in the escalating Sino-U.S. trade war after his "Made-in-China" wireless headphones, speakers and earbuds were taken off Washington's tariff list a year ago.



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Oil spills into U.S.-China trade war, prices slump

China on Friday said it would impose tariffs on U.S. crude oil imports for the first time, sending prices down nearly 4% to two-week lows as the escalating bilateral trade war fed worries over a slowdown in global oil demand.



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Fed's commitment to act upstaged by Trump's furor

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank would "act as appropriate" to keep the U.S. economy healthy, stopping short of committing to rapid-fire rate cuts and drawing fire from President Donald Trump.



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Stocks and oil fall, yen rallies as Trump threatens to further escalate China trade war

Stocks and oil prices fell sharply on Friday while traditional safe havens rose after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to further escalate his trade war with China "this afternoon," following a new round of retaliatory tariffs from Beijing.



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Oil prices slide as U.S.-China trade war escalates

Oil prices fell on Friday after China unveiled retaliatory tariffs against about $75 billion worth of U.S. goods including crude oil, another escalation of a protracted trade dispute between the world's two largest economies.



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World needs to end risky reliance on U.S. dollar: BoE's Carney

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney took aim at the U.S. dollar's "destabilizing" role in the world economy on Friday and said central banks might need to join together to create their own replacement reserve currency.



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Trump administration considers boost to biofuel mandates to ease farmer anger: sources

The Trump administration is considering ramping up biofuel blending quotas in the coming years to assuage anger in the Farm Belt over its recent broad use of waivers for small refineries, but is not planning to rescind any of the exemptions it has granted so far, four sources familiar with the matter said.



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