Trade Move News Today

Updates of the days news. Good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, august 8th. A lot to talk about this morning. Lets begin with that closely watched Special Election in ohio in a district that has been in gop hands for three decades, Republican Troy Balderson leads Danny Oconnor by less than 1 of all votes cast, making it too close to call. The official outcome may not be known until all the ballots are counted in the coming weeks the race could be coming to a recount as the final results are ...

Your next beer could feel the cost of president trumps newest trade move against mexico. ♪ ♪ what did i miss? [laughter] you ready to go? yeah. lets go! ♪ its nice. ♪ you got this! ♪ woo! ♪ ♪ ♪

Touting the booming economy as he mentioned that just hours earlier, dow jones industrial average hit a new all-time high. we did the same thing today. some are suggesting also the s&p 500. some are suggesting this shows that investors are shrugging off the trade war between united states and china with new tariffs. followed by retaliation from china. the president tweeting this video on the trade move. >> so we place massive tariffs on china and the tariffs that really had a positive impact. nu...

Fresno 106. so again its really not much is going to change. although we cool it off in the northwest. redding does not, bakersfield does not, sat lake city, portland and seattle, you will catch a break. not much changing in the west yet. >> a lot of triple digit temperatures. >> china looking to make a trade move with president trump. how apple could fit into that equation. >> plus shares of tesla after elon musk is considering taking the company private. and the other stories on your business ...

Parts of this president is how he has kind of sed alliances. he goes after canada and france on trade. as far as north korea he praises on kim jong-un and continues to want to meet with vladimir putin. it is all situational. when he is looking to make a deal with someone he flatters them. one thing the president says repeatedly our allies dont care about us. im president of america and they are president of their countries and we have to look out for ourselves. you can see that strategy played o...

The door to congratulate. he did this to george w. bush. he was the first foreign leader to call george w. bush on 9/11, something that putin made assure to point out. he wants to be the first one in the door, greasing up his subject. >> yeah, thats interesting. so this -- what youre saying -- and its his trade move. >> its a move and also not necessarily indicative of anything else. evelyn, what there is, its clear that trump is furious that flynn doesnt let him know. >> right. and i mean, actu...

And its his trade move. >> its a move and also not necessarily indicative of anything else. evelyn, what there is, its clear that trump is furious that flynn doesnt let him know. >> right. and i mean, actually, there, chris, i kind of sympathize with the president -- >> agreed. >> that six days is a long time. and if i were his boss, i would be annoyed. why is he withholding that? it does -- there is merit to that point. and i also agree with julia, you know, this is a vintage putin move. he did...

>> oh, come on! >> okay. i think its interesting and what, you know, when i read these memos, i was looking at it from the russian point of view and vladimir putin is good. this is a daft move on his part. hes done it before. you know, being the first guy in the door to congratulate. he did this to george w. bush. he was the first foreign leader to call george w. bush on 9/11, something that putin made assure to point out. he wants to be the first one in the door, greasing up his subject. >> yea...

It was a strategic move as much or more than it was a trade move. >> okay. lets talk shinzo abe. japan is our fourth largest trading partner. the president said trade with japan is not fair. whats going to go down here? they were wearing matching ties. >> as you said, its anybodys guess whats going to go down. trumps negotiating style and the way i think this stuff is going to unfold is he makes outrageous claims about countries, says hes going to pull out of trade agreements with them. and then...

That here at msnbc. this is not necessarily that shocking. but we are hoar -- >> here. >> this is a trade move. he fires his lawyer and then fires the national security adviser within a matter of minutes. what is going on? >> this is a president that knows how to control the media narrative. and that is something we have seen time and time again as julia just said. and so he does, he plans a lot of these announcements. >> lets go to headlines now called war footing. the whole world is going to s...