Jacob Wendler

2 weeks ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Jacob Wendler

Pritzker School of Law Dean Hari Osofsky will step down from her role atop one of the country’s top law schools this summer to lead two Pritzker initiatives, Northwestern announced Wednesday. “At this time of crisis for the issues that I have spent my career on — and after eight years of being a dean at two outstanding universities — it feels urgent and important to focus my work on the rule of law, energy, and climate change,” Osofsky wrote in a Wednesday email to the law school community.

2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Jacob Wendler |Mia Gindis |Vonnie Quinn

The Trump administration’s latest slew of tariffs will depress prices across commodities, according to Max Layton, global head of commodities research at Citigroup Inc. Copper prices in particular will likely fall by an additional 8% to 10% in the coming weeks, Layton said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. The metal shed 3.4% on Thursday as sweeping tariffs on US trading partners threaten to crimp global demand and traders brace for copper-specific import levies.

2 months ago | financialpost.com | Jacob Wendler |Mia Gindis

West Texas Intermediate futures dropped to $70.73 a barrel at 4:59 p.m. New York time in late trading, down 1.4% from their settlement price. Trump fired off his biggest salvo yet against the global trading system, applying a minimum 10% tariff on all exporters to the US, with higher rates on other trading partners, such as a 34% tariff on US imports from China and 20% on imports from the European Union.

2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Jacob Wendler |Mia Gindis

Oil retreated after US President Donald Trump ratcheted up his trade war with sweeping tariffs on major trading partners, raising concerns that economic turmoil will hurt crude demand. West Texas Intermediate futures dropped to $70.73 a barrel at 4:59 p.m. New York time in late trading, down 1.4% from their settlement price.

2 months ago | bloomberglinea.com | Mia Gindis |Jacob Wendler

Bloomberg — El petróleo retrocedió después de que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, intensificara su guerra comercial con amplios aranceles sobre los principales socios comerciales, entre ellos China y la Unión Europea, aumentando la preocupación por la disminución de la demanda de crudo. Los futuros del West Texas Intermediate cayeron a US$71,37 el barril a las 16:36 hora de Nueva York en las últimas operaciones, un 0,5% menos que su precio de liquidación.