US employment market ‘faceplanting’ as only 20,000 jobs created in February March 8, 2019 The US economy in February created fewer jobs than in any month since September 2017, leading to suggestions the job market is “faceplanting”. Meanwhile according to the Labor Department’s latest figures, employment at construction sites fell by 31,000 jobs, the biggest drop since December 2013, after increasing by 53,000 jobs in January. Read more: US-China [...]
US-China summit delayed until negotiations to end trade war are finalised March 8, 2019 The summit between US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping will be pushed back beyond the planned end of March date in order to finalise negotiations. No date has yet been agreed but it had originally been pencilled in for 27 March or 28 March in Mar-a-Lago following Xi's planned trip to Europe. [...]
Former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort jailed for financial crimes March 8, 2019 US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months behind bars for fraud. Manafort was last year convicted of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one of failing to disclose foreign bank accounts. Read more: Manafort to plead guilty to Mueller investigation charges The [...]
The Democrats have embraced the Trump trend of childish insults and illiterate ideas March 8, 2019 My worse fear has been realised: the 2020 presidential race is upon us. Like many readers, I’m not ready to re-board the political and emotional rollercoaster of 2016. But I cannot deny reality anymore: 2020 is in full-swing. Donald Trump has altered the tone and standards of debate in US politics. Many of his supporters [...]
‘Tim Apple’: Donald Trump makes latest name gaffe with Apple boss Tim Cook March 7, 2019 US President Donald Trump has referred to Apple chief executive Tim Cook as ‘Tim Apple’ in his latest name-related gaffe. Trump met with the Silicon Valley boss during a White House meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, which was set up to help the country manage the shift to automation and artificial intelligence. [...]
Trump was brave to leave North Korea empty-handed March 7, 2019 He came he saw, he left empty-handed. For the self-proclaimed consummate deal-maker that is President Donald Trump, it would not be an understatement to say that last week’s second summit with Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un on North Korea’s prospective denuclearisation did not go quite according to plan. Trump’s gamble had been that his personal rapport with [...]
There are plenty of reasons for investors to be optimistic about China March 6, 2019 Since the election of Donald Trump, one story has dominated global markets news: the trade war between China and the US. As negotiations reached a critical phase last month, markets fluctuated as setbacks led to breakthroughs, only for talks to stall again. But while investors are right to worry about currents of protectionism in the world’s [...]
Sadiq Khan’s junk food advertising ban will hurt TfL and marketers, but fail to fight childhood obesity March 4, 2019 Last week, a divisive political leader brought an end to a scourge that threatened our everyday society. No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, whose summit with Kim Jong-un unfortunately failed to achieve the denuclearisation of North Korea. I’m talking instead about London mayor Sadiq Khan, whose ban on junk food advertising on the Transport [...]
Trump asks China to lift tariffs on US agricultural exports as trade talks ‘move along nicely’ March 2, 2019 President Donald Trump has said he has ask China to lift its tariffs on US agricultural imports because of good progress in the latest round of trade talks. He has also put plans on hold to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods, which were originally scheduled for Friday. Read more: US and China [...]
US lays out demands for free trade deal with UK, raising concerns over food regulations March 1, 2019 The United States has taken a hard line on post-Brexit trade talks with the UK, demanding greater access to British markets where products such as chlorinated chicken are currently banned by the EU. In its negotiating objectives for a future free trade deal, the US Trade Representative’s office (USTR) said it would try to reduce [...]