US and China strike trade deal
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Trade truce with China is hailed
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Global hedge funds reaped limited gains from a big Wall Street stock rally triggered by a U.S.-China agreement on tariffs on Monday, a Morgan Stanley note on Tuesday showed.
The White House announced a "China trade deal" in a May 11 statement, but did not disclose details. The apparent agreement came together sooner than most observers expected after Trump's 145% tariffs on Chinese imports virtually halted $600 billion in annual trade between the world's two largest economies.
Investors eye more trade deals, updates from President Trump’s trip to the Middle East and fresh consumer inflation data after U.S. stocks soared Monday as investors celebrated major progress on U.S.-China trade talks.
Representatives from China and the U.S. met for a second day Sunday to discuss trade policies amid fallout from President Donald Trump’s tariff plan.
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The weekend deal adds to the sense that President Donald Trump may be backing off some of the more stringent trade tariffs.
The president and his team have backed down from their sharp rhetoric as they search for trade deals that could lower tariffs.
The trade deal struck last week between the United States and Britain is probably not going to serve as a template for a trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union, Lithuania's Finance Minister Rimantas Sadzius said on Tuesday.