# Professor Joseph Foudy offers thoughts on uncertainty in the current global trade environment

1 Faculty News June 27, 2018 ![Business News Daily Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_043611.jpg?itok=oFwUEIvE)>

Excerpt from [Business News Daily](https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/10931-small-business-tariff-impact.html) -- "'The toughest thing to price in is just the market uncertainty and those effects,' Foudy said. 'The stock market is jittery, but there's so much uncertainty about what \[the\] U.S. and others will impose. We see them move nervously but toward no particular outcome. It is slowing down business investment; uncertainty does that ... businesses need to know what's happening or they just put things on hold.'

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