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President Donald Trump will sign a proclamation to enact new tariffs on steel and aluminum this week, with “potential carveouts” for Mexico, Canada and possibly other countries, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump’s plan to implement punitive tariffs is shaking financial markets, which means it’s time to consider which currencies would be among immediate losers if a trade war erupts.

Spring break travel deals (and snow storms) make winter getaways tempting.

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The U.K. just banned four ticket resellers from ‘misleading’ consumers about ticket prices.

21 percent of respondents in an annual survey of wealth advisers and private bankers said their clients increased their investments in cryptocurrencies in 2017

The White House said Wednesday President Donald Trump's attorneys had won a case brought against him by former adult-movie star Stormy Daniels. "The president has denied the allegations against him, and again, this case has already been won in arbitration," said press secretary Sarah Sanders. Sanders said Trump's personal lawyers won the case. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, filed a suit against Trump saying his lawyer forced her to sign a false statement in response to inquiries... Читать дальше...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday afternoon briefly gave up its year-to-date gains, as Wall Street wrestled with news that Cohn is National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn has resigned from the White House. Market participants fear that Cohn's departure suggests that President Donald Trump will push forward on tariffs and on steel and aluminum imports that the key adviser has opposed. Moreover, Cohn was viewed as a chief engineer of the president's pro-business agenda. The Dow was down 349 points... Читать дальше...

Walmart is launching meal kits at more than 2,000 stores at a time when both the in-store meal-kit business and the meal-kit category are expanding at a double-digit rate.

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Consumer borrowing rose $13.9 billion in January, the slowest pace in four months, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

The Mexican peso and the Canadian dollar snapped back against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, after the White House said that there could be potential carve-outs from anticipated steel and aluminum tariffs for Mexico and Canada. This would be on ground of national security. There could be carve-outs for additional countries, the White House said. Canada is the largest exporter of steel and aluminum products to the U.S. and would be hit the hardest by the tariffs, which were first introduced by... Читать дальше...

The FDA is reviewing whether a type of brain inflammation called encephalitis linked to Biogen and AbbVie’s MS drug Zinbryta was a result of a known side effect of the therapy or has another cause, a FDA spokesperson told MarketWatch

Oil prices suffers a sharp drop Wednesday as concerns surrounding a possible trade war intensify and data reveals a fresh weekly record for domestic crude production.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was threatening to log a decline of at least 1% on Wednesday, which would mark a ninth decline of at least 1% for the average so far in 2018. Even without that drop, the blue-chip index has posted enough down days of 1% or more to represent the highest number of such drops on a year-to-date basis since 2016, when the index suffered 14 declines of that magnitude by March 6, according to WSJ Market Data Group. The slump for the Dow comes after it posted no decline of greater than 1% in 2017. Читать дальше...

General Dynamics Corp. raised its quarterly dividend by 11% to 93 cents a share, with the new dividend payable May 11 to shareholders of record on April 13. The aerospace and defense company said this marks the 21st-straight year it has increased its dividend. The stock was up less than 0.1% in afternoon trade. Based on current share prices, the new annual dividend rate of $3.72 implies a dividend yield of 1.65%, compared with the implied dividend yield for the S&P 500 of 1.90%, according to FactSet. Читать дальше...

Snap Inc. is planning to lay off roughly 100 people in its engineering department, according to a report from Cheddar, citing people familiar with the matter. The layoffs would represent less than 10% of Snap's engineering team and perhaps 3% of its overall workforce. They would mark Snap's largest round of layoffs to date. The company didn't respond to MarketWatch's request for comment. Snap shares are up 0.5% in Wednesday afternoon trading, though they've given back some of their earlier gains... Читать дальше...

U.S. stocks trade lower Wednesday as the resignation of Gary Cohn, the head of President Donald Trump’s National Economic Council, late Tuesday sparked a selloff in risky assets such as equities.

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There are potential "carve outs" from tariffs for Mexico and Canada and possibly other countries, based on national security, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday. Sanders said President Donald Trump expects to sign tariff orders by the end of the week. Trump has said Canada and Mexico can avoid steel and aluminum tariffs if they renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Shares of steel and aluminum companies among the few sectors seeing broad gains Wednesday, as the resignation of Gary Cohn appeared to pave the way for President Donald Trump to push through the import tariffs. U.S. Steel Corp.'s stock surged 2.9% in afternoon trade. Meanwhile, Cowen analyst Novid Rassouli said U.S. Steel's announcement early Wednesday that it restart one of its two blast furnaces and the steelmaking facilities at its Granite City, Ill. plant "appears somewhat premature" given... Читать дальше...

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