Steve Mnuchin

Soybean markets got a little bit of a boost on the news that US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin recently had a phone conversation about trade with China's Vice Premier, reportedly trying to find some way to ease tensions so some kind of negotiations can start...

According to the AP, President Trump and Chinese President XI Jinping may meet during the G-20 summit in Argentina scheduled for late November.  China said it is in contact with the U.S. amid reports of the upcoming meeting.  A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman offered no specifics but did say he’d seen the relevant reports.   Trump’s top econ...

President Trump pushed back at the Wall Street Journal, which ran an article saying the U.S. was under pressure to make a deal with China.  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin recently invited Chinese officials to come to Washington D.C. for ne...

Bloomberg says the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are all on separate pages when it comes to the new NAFTA.  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the administration is more focused on reaching a good deal rather than an immediate one.  Mnuchin says it doesn’t matter if it’s passed in this session of Congress or the next one.  Canadian Prime Minister Justi...

President Trump has come out very strong, very specific against what he’s called unfair trade practices by China.   “That’s given us as negotiators a lot of leverage,” said Jason Hafemeister with the trade council to Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue.   Recently, President Trum...

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank both issued warnings that trade disputes could put a healthy global economic expansion in jeopardy.   An Associated Press report says U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin showed cautious optimism over the weekend that the U.S. a...

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said getting tax reform legislation on the President’s desk by August appears unlikely.  Mnuchin told the Financial Times this week the tax reform timeline is “highly aggressive to not realistic at this point.”  He was referr...