Elaine Kurtenbach

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  • China, EUEurope

    China slashes EU pork tariffs to 19.8% from 62.4%

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • United NationsAI

    UN warns about AI becoming another ‘Great Divergence’ between rich and poor countries like the Industrial Revolution

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • brokerInvesting

    Nvidia, AI selloff drives world shares lower, with Europe and Asia tumbling

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, look at each other after their summit meeting at Gimhae International Airport Jinping in Busan, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)Asia

    Trump boasts after ‘amazing’ meeting with Xi, but China suggests trade deal isn’t done

    By The Associated Press and Elaine Kurtenbach
  • A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.Investing

    Investors can’t hold back their AI bubble jitters anymore as gold pushes beyond $4,000 per ounce

    By Elaine Kurtenbach, Matt Ott, and others
  • Jensen HuangAI

    ‘It’s up to, of course, the United States government’: Jensen Huang says a new China chip is in the works with Trump weighing in

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • Close up of Chinese Yuan notes, with Mao Tse-tung.Cybersecurity

    China’s secret weapon against the dollar is a yuan stablecoin

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • Jensen Huang CEO of NvidiaAI

    Nvidia gets $5.5 billion carve-out from Trump to sell AI chips in China

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • A container ship arrives at the port in Lianyungang, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on July 14, 2025. China’s exports rose more than expected in June, official data showed on July 14, after Washington and Beijing agreed a tentative deal to lower swingeing tariffs on each other. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)Economy

    China exports surge 5.8% in June as business rush through orders during U.S. tariff reprieve

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, right, shakes hands with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent before their meeting to discuss China-U.S. trade, in London, Monday, June 9, 2025. (Li Ying/Xinhua via AP)Politics

    Bessent says new U.S.-China deal is a sign of ‘de-escalation’ after Trump’s trade war roiled global markets

    By Elaine Kurtenbach, Will Weissert, and others
  • Trucks loaded with container move through a container terminal port in Shanghai, China Monday, June 9, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)Economy

    Trump says the U.S. and China have signed a trade deal but doesn’t offer any details

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • Workers labor at a manufacturer of medical polymer precision catheters, in Nantong city in east China’s Jiangsu province on April 24, 2025. (Chinatopix via AP)Politics

    China says if U.S. wants to ‘show its sincerity’ for trade talks it should be ready to cancel Trump’s 145% tariffs

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • An employee poses controls Augmentin tablets on a production line at the GSK pharmaceutical laboratory in Mayenne, western France, on January 5, 2023. – To cope with shortages of some major antibiotics, the British laboratory GSK is pulling out all the stops at its factory in the western French town of Mayenne, as the problem has reached global proportions. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Trump eyes new tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals as U.S. only makes 20% of world’s drugs and 0% of advanced logic chips

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • TOPSHOT – Cars and other vehicles for export are seen at a port in Yantai, in eastern China’s Shandong province on April 3, 2025. China on April 3 said it was “maintaining communication” with the United States over economic and trade issues after Washington announced swingeing new tariffs. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    China’s exports jumped 12.4% in March as companies rushed to get stuff into the U.S. ahead of Trump’s tariffs

    By Elaine Kurtenbach and The Associated Press
  • TOPSHOT – Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, on April 4, 2025. Markets extended a global selloff on April 4 as countries around the world reeled from US President Donald Trump’s trade war, but the White House insisted the American economy will emerge victorious. Shock waves tore through markets in the United States, Europe and Asia after Trump’s tariff bombshell, as foreign leaders signaled readiness to negotiate but also threatened counter-tariffs. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    The S&P 500 is flirting with dreaded bear market territory as Trump tariffs drive global market meltdown

    By Stan Choe, Elaine Kurtenbach, and others