Insights and Stories on Trump

Jul. 24, 2018 at 2:15 pm CDT

Washington/Kansas City | Reuters — The Trump administration on Tuesday said it would provide up to US$12 billion in aid for U.S. farmers to shield them from the repercussions felt by trade spats between the United States and China, the European Union and others. China has targeted U.S. agricultural exports […]

By David Shepardson, Susan Heavey

Jul. 22, 2018 at 1:44 am CDT

Beijing | Reuters –– In the tense trade war with the United States, China’s government has turned to an unlikely weapon: a cartoon bean. “Hi, everybody. I am a soybean. I may not look like much, but I’m very important,” says the animated character in a video posted on Friday […]

By Reuters

Jul. 16, 2018 at 7:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures jumped on Monday after dropping to their lowest prices in a decade earlier in the session, as the U.S.-China trade dispute looms over agricultural markets. Technical buying helped soybeans to recover after the most-active contract lost more than five per cent last week, […]

By Tom Polansek

Jul. 11, 2018 at 6:23 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. livestock futures fell one per cent or more on Wednesday, extending declines on technical selling and fears reduced pork and beef exports could result in burdensome supplies in domestic meat markets, traders and analysts said. Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures contracts slumped to […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Jul. 10, 2018 at 6:53 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned two imprisoned Oregon ranchers whose sentencing on arson convictions sparked the 2016 occupation of a wildlife refuge, part of a long-simmering dispute over federal land policies in the U.S. West. The armed standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in remote […]

By Jonathan Allen