by ev3v4hn | Aug 15, 2020 | Business News
WASHINGTON — After more than two years of browbeating and trade sanctions on Canada and Mexico, President Donald Trump strong-armed the United States’ neighbors into agreeing to supplant a 25-year-old North American trade agreement with one of his own. His pact, meant to update the old deal and encourage more manufacturing in the United States, […]
by ev3v4hn | Aug 12, 2020 | Business News
Visitors line up in the rain for the opening of the first Beijing outlet for Shake Shack in Beijing on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The U.S. headquartered burger chain is opening its first Beijing restaurant at a time when China and the U.S. are at loggerheads over a...
by ev3v4hn | Aug 7, 2020 | Business News
TOKYO — Asian shares were mostly lower Friday in lackluster trading, as trade tensions between the U.S. and China offset optimism about more fiscal stimulus for the ailing U.S. economy. Currency traders talk on phones at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB...
by ev3v4hn | Aug 6, 2020 | Business News
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) wants to make it easier for foreign businesses to set up shop here, easing their burden at a time when the health crisis has left Filipino mom-and-pop stores struggling to even pay rent. In a recent Zoom conference with...
by ev3v4hn | Jul 31, 2020 | Business News
The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEi) closed lower on Thursday as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of the long weekend. The PSEi ended the session down 0.63 percent, or 37.82 points, to 5,928.45 while the broader all-shares index was lower by...