Trade policy seen key as White House race heats up
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Thursday night's victories for  Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama in the Iowa  presidential caucuses will bring increased attention to the  candidates' trade proposals as they head off to New Hampshire  for round two of the primary season.
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Exit polls showing a tight race for the White House kept markets in suspense on Wednesday, with US stock futures and the dollar inching up as President Bush led in early counting.
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Republican White  House hopefuls differ over whether the United States is headed  for a recession but agree the economy faces serious risks --  from housing market turmoil to record-high oil prices.
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Poll indicators suggest Democratic race for the White House about to take decisive turn
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A election win on Tuesday for Sen. John Kerry could make the United States tougher and more cautious on trade, while a victory for President Bush would keep the country on the path to more deals, experts say.
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The troubled US economy is increasingly shaping the presidential race, with candidates promising fresh initiatives on Friday four days before a Republican nominating contest in hard-hit Michigan.
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President George W. Bush is open to options on the details and size of a package to boost the troubled U.S. economy, the White House said on Tuesday as Bush prepared to meet with lawmakers.
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A free trade agreement with Peru, the first under the new Democratic majority that gives labor rights and the environment equal treatment to lower tariffs and greater market access, is set for a vote in the House.
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President Bush&#039;s selection of a savvy Wall Street veteran to be his third treasury secretary is winning widespread praise, but Democrats say it will take a change in policies &amp;#151; not just personnel &amp;#151; to deal with budget and trade deficits and other economic problems.
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The White House and U.S. lawmakers moved closer on Wednesday to agreement on an election-year economic package that President George W. Bush said would be "robust" enough to lift the economy out of the doldrums.
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Republican President George W. Bush and his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, are charging into the final week of the US campaign for the White House trading increasingly tough charges on the continuing conflict in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 31  - The race for the White House was wide open late Saturday as it headed down to the wire with President George W. Bush and his rival John Kerry scrambling for decisive votes in Florida and the US Midwest.
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The generally Democratic state of Michigan is shaping up to be a key state in the Republican race for the White House, as mixed results in Iowa and New Hampshire place new emphasis on its upcoming primary.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential hopefuls are tip-toeing around an inconvenient economic fact: Iowa and New Hampshire, the states hosting the 2008 campaign's first contests, benefit from free-trade policies that many residents nonetheless blame for lost jobs.
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President Bush will be confronted by  strong domestic and foreign policy challenges as he begins a  second term this week that will go a long way toward  determining his place in the pantheon of American presidents.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has criticized President Bush for not aggressively enforcing trade agreements, but experts disagree on whether the White House could have done a better job.
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President Bush, pressing his free-trade agenda on a Congress now run by Democrats, said Tuesday more foreign markets need to be opened to U.S. products.