5 Stocks To Ride Out Renewed U.S.-China Trade Tension
Zacks Investment Research | Sep 23, 2019 08:19AM ET
On the trade front, the United States and China have been at loggerheads since 2018, after slapping higher tariffs on each other’s goods. Both the economic giants have decided to sit down and restart trade negotiations, but China recently canceled its U.S. farm tour after President Trump said that he will settle for a “complete deal” only. This created volatility in the market as investors sensed that the trade war isn’t ending anytime soon.
Trade Dampens
After months of tussle and imposing millions of dollar worth tariffs on each other’s products, both United States and China had finally exchanged “gestures of goodwill” at the beginning of September. China had removed tariffs on 16 U.S. goods and agreed to purchase more soybeans and pork without rising tariffs. To reciprocate the act, President Trump had delayed an additional tariff imposition by 15 days.
Both the economic superpowers had also agreed to hold a “delegate-level” talk in September before the “principal-level” negotiations begin in October. The talk was held on Sep 19-20 at Washington and as a “goodwill” gesture representatives from Beijing were supposed to take a farm tour in Montana and Nebraska.
But on Sep 20, the Montana Farm Bureau Federation received a message from the Chinese embassy that the delegates “had an adjustment of their agenda” due to which the farm tour would be canceled. Similar information was received by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.
Investors now anticipate that this halt in talks would certainly damage the progress in trade that took place in recent times, and now the scope of improvement seems improbable. Noticeably, there has been a negative impact of the trade war on both cpuntries’ economy, and businesses had to pull back investments while waiting for Trump to give positive signals on the trade front.
5 Stocks to Buy
The U.S.-China trade turbulence seems to be burning the economy gradually, and dragging the stock market down. And with trade-sensitive stocks suffering badly, investors are looking for stocks that are immune to trade.
Here, consumer staples’ stocks come into play as their products are in constant demand, irrespective of market volatility. Hence we have selected such stocks that flaunt a Zacks Rank #1(Strong Buy) or 2 (Buy) and have outperformed their respective industries.
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