West Texas Intermediate was steady near $71 a barrel, and is down almost 3% this week, while Brent crude closed above $74.

On Thursday, Jamieson Greer, President Donald Trump’s pick for trade representative, defended the White House’s recent move to impose tariffs on three major countries: Mexico, Canada and China.

Contrary to the narrative that China’s private sector has been squeezed into irrelevance, major developments in new ...

President Donald Trump has long been touting tariffs as a way to disrupt the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. and this week he took action with a 10 percent tariff on goods imported from China. "It's a ...