Get the DealBook newsletter to make sense of major business and policy headlines — and the power-brokers who shape them. __________President Trump’s trade war is making life uncomfortable for some large American corporations, but they have found a way to reduce the pain: Pass it on to customers. They can bear the higher costs themselves and report weaker profits, which might crater their stocks. Or they can charge more for their products, in effect making their customers bear much of the financial burden of the tariffs, at least for a while. As they report second-quarter earnings, they are going out of their way to let their shareholders know that it is customers who are paying.

Source: New York Times July 30, 2018 23:03 UTC