The Trump administration may be about to slap tariffs of up to 25 percent on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, escalating a confrontation between the world’s two biggest economies and likely squeezing US companies that import everything from handbags to bicycle tires.
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Trader Guilty of UK’s Biggest Fraud Detained Prior to Deportation
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) — Kweku Adoboli, the former trader who was found guilty of causing a $2.3bn (£1.8bn) financial loss, has been detained by the Home Office as preparations for his deportation to Ghana begin.
Adoboli, 38, was jailed in 2012 for the fraud, which was the biggest in UK history. He was freed after serving half of his seven-year sentence.
Trump is said to back $200 Bln China Tariffs Early as Next Week – Gold Silver Reports
Trump is said to back $200 Bln China Tariffs Early as Next Week – Neal Bhai Reports
The Fed Should Prepare for the Unexpected – Gold Silver Reports
U.S. Federal Reserve are grappling with an important issue: how to deal with the possibility that the economy doesn’t act the way they expect it to. Judging from their analyses, different risks will require different responses — and at least one concern isn’t getting enough attention.
Downside Not Upside Global Risk – Gold Silver Reports
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) — The UST yield curve continues to flatten (as it does elsewhere). All sorts of mainstream articles have been published lately about it. Many of them often refer to academic pieces ostensibly trying assuage all fears about the yield curve’s threatening inversion. Fret not the distortion, they say.
Canada Wins in Trump’s Nafta “DEAL” with Mexico
Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that he’d reached a “very special” deal for American manufacturers and farmers, in a bilateral trade arrangement with Mexico he envisions as replacement for the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement that has included Canada.
The Rate Hikes Keep Coming – Neal Bhai Reports
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Jackson Hole came and went with little reason to believe the Federal Reserve will do anything other than raise interest rates in September and again in December of this year.