Latest from Tracey Samuelson

• Jun 14, 2018

  What the AT&T ruling means for mergers and acquisitions

  Yesterday … a judge cleared AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. Today… Comcast bid $65 billion in cash for 21st Century Fox assets, which Disney is already trying to buy. Coincidence? I think not. The AT&T decision was closely watched for the implications it could have on other deals. So, more to come? Click […]

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• Jun 12, 2018

  How U.S. trade policy risks isolating the country from traditional allies

  President Donald Trump backed out of a joint statement with the other six countries of the G-7 and lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Twitter after Trudeau said Canada would push forward with retaliatory tariffs. A photo from the weekend kind of sums it all up: Trump’s seated, arms crossed, eyebrows raised, […]

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• May 24, 2018

  Turkey raises interest rates to stem currency crisis

  The Turkish lira has been on a wild slide recently. It dropped 5 percent against the dollar Wednesday, its biggest loss in nearly a decade, before the country’s Central Bank stepped in with an emergency meeting that reversed some of those losses. The bank finally did something it’d been resisting. Something its president had been […]

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• May 22, 2018

  Congress weighs changes to foreign investment oversight

  

  The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act is likely headed for a vote in the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.

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• May 17, 2018

  With NAFTA negotiators still far apart, is it time for a “Skinny NAFTA”?

  Tomorrow is supposed to be the final deadline  — per House Speaker Paul Ryan — for trade negotiators to agree to a revised North American Free Trade Agreement. That is if they want this Congress to vote on NAFTA before the end of the year. There’s been some push back there — others counting calendar days differently and […]

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• May 12, 2018

  Many sticking points and little time in NAFTA negotiations

  May 17. Next Thursday. That’s the deadline House Speaker Paul Ryan has set for negotiators to notify Congress that they’ve reached an agreement on a revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement if they want to get it through Congress by the end of the year. A May deadline for a December vote […]

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• Apr 25, 2018

  EU is unhappy with U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs

  When the United States imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports last month, the European Union and a handful of other key allies got a temporarily exemption that expires next week. China was not granted an exemption and took its case to the World Trade Organization. This week, the EU has decided to join that […]

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• Apr 17, 2018

  U.S. companies line up to be excluded from steel and aluminum tariffs

  Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is in Florida to discuss trade issues with President Donald Trump. One issue on the table: Japan’s desire to be excluded from steel and aluminum tariffs that went into effect last month. Other key U.S. allies, including Australia, Canada, the European Union and Mexico have been granted exemptions. Plenty of […]

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• Apr 10, 2018

  How economic security is national security for Trump

  

  Many trading partners see that core administration belief as a thinly veiled cover for protectionism.

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• Apr 5, 2018

  What does a trade war mean for the U.S. economy?

  

  Let's break down how it will affect the country's GDP, jobs or even agriculture.

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