With the benefit of hindsight today, the Washington Consensus was valuable in the sense that it was a consensus, it ...

President Trump has proposed a sweeping set of tariffs. Does this mark the end of the post-war free trade world?

Stock markets in Asia and Europe slumped Monday after Donald Trump slapped tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, sparking ...

“Trade war 2.0 begins,” UBS strategists wrote in a ... and China has said it will challenge the move at the World Trade Organization.

In a worse-case scenario, a trade war could trigger military conflict ... twice before – by the US in the early years after World War II and the UK at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

It was created in 1995, superseding the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that was created in the wake of World War II. The WTO is based on agreements signed by a majority of the ...

Trump’s arrival has added to pre-existing worries. Despite an International Monetary Fund official declaring in October that ...

The nation’s stock markets outperformed the rest of the world by 20% in the past year ... zero for what is being dubbed “Trump Trade War 2.0.” Recent market data shows investors are already ...