Trade wars
- Opinion
- Aviation
Canary in the plane cabin: How Trump is changing where Australians travel
Australian companies operating on the global stage, such as Flight Centre, are becoming prone to infection from the global trade malaise.
- Elizabeth Knight
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- Opinion
- Oil
Trump’s billionaire oil industry donors aren’t getting what they wished for
Donald Trump urged the US oil industry to “drill, baby, drill”, but his tariffs sank the oil price and could reduce, not increase, production.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
Money is flowing out of Wall Street, so where is it going?
As Donald Trump’s tariff wars throw US markets into a pit of uncertainty, the Australian sharemarket is shaping up as a safe haven.
- Sumeyya Ilanbey
‘Trump is doing permanent damage’: What’s got global market leaders spooked?
The meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this past week have been dominated by the future of a key building block of globalisation.
- Colby Smith
How China is controlling Australia’s – and the world’s – rare earths trade
China is threatening to land a knockout blow in its trade war with Donald Trump, targeting a vulnerability in the United States’ most crucial military infrastructure with a strike that was decades in the making.
- Simon Johanson and Colin Kruger
‘We don’t want to be the sacrificial lamb’: The farmers hurt by Trump’s tariffs
Caleb Ragland voted Republican three times and doesn’t regret it. But he is about to plant a field of crops that China loves to buy – and he is very worried.
- Michael Koziol
China has an army of robots on its side in the tariff war
Enormous investments in factory equipment and artificial intelligence are giving China an edge in car manufacturing and other industries.
- Keith Bradsher
‘Trading off tweets’: Trump’s U-turns keep markets on edge
Any other time, it would have been a signal that the worst of the sharemarket’s slide is nearing an end, setting off buy signals at trading desks across Wall Street. But not now.
- Alexandra Semenova, Esha Dey and Carmen Reinicke
The billionaire speaking out against Trump
Richard Branson didn’t hold back in his comments, saying Trump has “put America on the wrong side of history”.
- Stephen Castle
On TikTok, there’s only one winner from Trump’s tariff death spiral with China
First came the AI-generated videos depicting Americans working in sweatshops. Since then, it’s been open slather, gifting Beijing a PR win.
- Lisa Visentin
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