Daimler Is Trying To Tell You Something. Are You Listening?

If you're looking for concrete signs that the threat of an escalating global trade conflict is  starting to weigh on the outlook, you'd be hard pressed to find a more disconcerting development than a profit warning from Daimler and that's just what markets are trying to cope with on Thursday. After the bell on Wednesday, the company reassessed its projections for earnings and the proximate cause of the newly downgraded outlook is the threat of import tariffs on vehicles the company builds in t