Morning Bid: US-China talks stir hope, and scepticism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Our new daily news digest offers a rundown of the top market-moving headlines impacting global trade.
47% : But taking the glass-half-full view, as the first deal since Trump started ramping up tariffs in earnest, it does stir hopes that the White House may be looking for rapid-fire deals in coming weeks to inject additional calm into markets that have been badly bruised by erratic U.S. trade edicts.
25% : Trump has hinted that sky-high 145% levies on Chinese goods - which effectively amount to an embargo - would likely come down, although the White House dismissed as speculation a New York Post report of a plan to slash tariffs by more than half.

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