President Donald Trump plans to meet with China’s top trade negotiator Friday afternoon as the U.S. tries to forge a preliminary deal with its biggest economic rival before tariffs on some Chinese imports more than double next month, two people familiar with the matter said.
“The Trump administration has, shall we say, wreaked some amount of havoc on our trading relationships with these partners,” former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, told BNN Bloomberg in an interview on Thursday.
Even in the stronger economy, governor Stephen Poloz says the benchmark rate's upward journey to its likely destination range of between 2.5 and 3.5 per cent is highly uncertain.
Statistics Canada says wholesale sales rose 0.3 per cent to $63.1 billion in December, led higher by gains in the motor vehicle and parts and the miscellaneous subsectors.
U.S. consumer expectations jumped the most in a decade, erasing much of the drop during the recent government shutdown and stock-market plunge.
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