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Political Fallout From Trump’s Russian Diesel Deal Overshadows Price Impact
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The planned imports will “have very little unnoticeable impact on domestic US diesel prices, even if it happens — and I think that’s a big if,” given legal complications and R...
By Chris Kennedy
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China Rare-Earth Exports to U.S. Drop Before Xi-Trump Meet
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“Washington needs stability with Beijing to keep these critical inputs moving,” Chris Kennedy, lead for economic statecraft at Bloomberg Economics and adjunct senior fellow at...
By Chris Kennedy
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Trump’s Tough Talk Accelerates Greenland Investment Push
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“It's probably the most offensive action this administration taken beyond tariffs, beyond the political meddling in European elections,” said Chris Kennedy, lead for economic ...
By Chris Kennedy
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Carney Calls U.S. Trade Bans ‘Modest,’ Signals Canada Won’t Retaliate
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“The Trump administration’s latest trade move in the US-Canada trade war, announced late Sept. 8, isn’t much of an escalation in practice and is unlikely to have any macroecon...
By Chris Kennedy
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What Bessent’s Economic Isolation of Iran Could Look Like
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“Unless the president decides to prioritize addressing the Iran threat over all other issues, and namely China, it’s unlikely any action they take is going to materially chang...
By Chris Kennedy
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Kazakhstan’s Billion-Dollar Rare Earths Push Faces Familiar Obstacles
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“There's no guarantee that the defence of the investments will continue into a new administration and … that's a long-standing problem for western companies not being able to ...
By Chris Kennedy
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The Two Main U.S. Inflation Gauges Are Telling Different Stories
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To know where you’re heading, it can help to know where you’ve been. With that in mind, the pre-Iran war readings on US inflation aren’t entirely devoid of information. But so...
By Chris Kennedy
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Cuba Decries Trump’s ‘Genocidal’ Threat, Girds for Calamity
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Cuba hit back at Donald Trump’s plans to use tariffs to choke off all oil supplies to the struggling island, calling it extortionary and declaring an emergency with conditions...
By Chris Kennedy
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Sheinbaum Warns of Deeper Cuba Crisis After Trump Oil Threat
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned that the latest US tariffs threatened by Donald Trump on goods from countries that support Cuba with critical energy supplies could ...
By Chris Kennedy
