LONDON BRIEFING: Victrex interim profit jumps; Cobalt eyes June IPO

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : ---------- Trump will stand firm on the blanket 10% tariff on most UK imports into the US, his press secretary has indicated.
58% : Representatives from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the EU will join Foreign Secretary David Lammy in London for a meeting of the so-called "Weimar+" group.
54% : ---------- President Trump will sign an executive order to lower the price of prescription drugs and pharmaceutical products.
46% : President Trump hailed early Sunday a "total reset" in US-China trade relations following the first day of talks between top US and Chinese officials aimed at de-escalating tensions sparked by his aggressive tariff rollout.
39% : The reduction in prescription drug costs in the US would, he added, be counterbalanced by higher costs in other countries.
37% : "Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%," Trump said in a social media post.
31% : Trump said he planned to institute a "MOST FAVORED NATION'S" policy that pinned the cost of drugs sold in the US to the lowest price paid by other countries for the same drug.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.