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Wall Street executive and incoming Commerce secretary has emerged as a hawkish protectionist.

Even as he stumped for Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick’s commercial real estate firm was wooing clients across the southern border.

In a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, Howard Lutnick was asked about an array of policy matters including tariffs, China, inflation, and more.

The resolution of the shareholder complaint comes days ahead of Lutnick’s confirmation hearing for Commerce Secretary.

Democrats are looking to exploit the Commerce secretary nominee’s vast wealth and financial entanglements at his confirmation hearing Wednesday.

Howard Lutnick, President Trump's pick to run the Department of Commerce, is probed by the senator on the Tether connection of his firm, Cantor Fitzgerald.

Howard Lutnick, the wealthy Wall Street executive whom President Trump has tapped to lead the Department of Commerce, detailed a complex network of financial holdings on Friday as he prepared to face scrutiny from lawmakers during a confirmation hearing next week.

President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Commerce Department, Howard Lutnick, said on Wednesday that he has advised Trump to impose across-the-board tariffs country-by-country to restore trade

(Kenny Holston/Press Pool) President Trump’s pick for commerce secretary Howard Lutnick detailed Monday how Trump will use his “external revenue service” and the administration’s approach with tariffs. Lutnick said at a Washington rally celebrating ...

WASHINGTON — The man U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen to oversee his tariff agenda says hitting Canada with 25 per cent across-the-board duties would be an emergency measure to achieve border security — and could be followed by more tariffs in the future.