Trade War With China Escalates

Stocks tumbled on Wall Street after President Donald Trump said he “hereby ordered” U.S. companies to consider alternatives to doing business in China. He also said he would respond to Beijing’s latest tariff increase later Friday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank nearly 500 points after the president made the announcements on Twitter.

Trump also said he was “ordering” UPS, Federal Express and Amazon to block any deliveries from China of the powerful opiod drug fentanyl. The stocks of all three companies fell as traders tried to understand what the...

President Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in June.
For all of his bluster about the strength of the economy and his purported role in guiding the country to new highs, President Trump is worried.