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Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to present President Trump with a set of terms the U.S. should meet before Beijing is ready to settle a market-rattling trade confrontation, raising questions of whether the two leaders will agree to relaunch talks.
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 Risk appetite returned to world markets on Thursday following a media report the United States and China have tentatively agreed to a truce ahead of a highly-anticipated weekend meeting of the two nations' leaders in Tokyo.
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 Donald Trump has called a meeting where the outcome is beyond his control. We expect Xi to exercise his unilateral power to refuse any concessions to the United States, writes Carl Weinberg.
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There would also be the likelihood of a re-accelerating economy.
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Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls talk Wednesday about immigration, climate change, health care and more, but the current low unemployment rate of 3.6% doesn't come up during their debate. What if it had?
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How do we evaluate if AI makes our lives easier or supplants our own efforts in maintaining strong brains?
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Trade dispute between the two countries is making emerging market investors nervous
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Market focus is largely attuned to global trade developments, amid hopes Washington and Beijing could reach a truce in their trade war.
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Asian markets gained in early trading Thursday, as investors focused on optimistic signs ahead of Saturday's meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Japan.
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 The Nasdaq Composite Index registered a modest gain on Wednesday, buoyed by a Micron Technologies-led rebound in chip makers, but the broader market finished slightly lower to flat, as selling in real estate, utilities and consumer staples weighed. The Nasdaq finished up 25 points, or 0.3%, at 7,910 (on a preliminary basis), halting three straight days of losses as upbeat quarterly results by Micron helped to inspire a rally in the semiconductor sector . However, gains faded in the last two hours of trade as investors wrestled with the coming G-20 gathering in Japan, where President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are expected to discuss a cease-fire in tariff tensions. Markets were higher in early trade after investors interpreted a CNBC interview of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Bahrain as signaling hope for a Sino-American trade deal. Mnuchin said that an accord was 90% complete. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 11 points, or less than 0.1%, at 26,536, while the S&P 500 index shed 0.1% to end at 2,914.
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Wayfair employees generated widespread support for its protest against the furniture e-commerce retailer's business dealings with the government and its contractors to furnish migrant detention centers.
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Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says breaking up big tech won't solve key issues over data privacy and antitrust concerns, but regulation could. At the Aspen Ideas Festival on Wednesday, Zuckerberg repeated calls for regulation of social media and policing online content. He said a good start would be the Honest Ads Act, co-written by presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., which would oversee election advertising. Laws on political ads, he acknowledged, are "very out of date." He also defended Facebook's acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram, insisting they did not stifle innovation.
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U.S. stocks claw back some of the previous day's loss; semiconductor shares scored a bounce from Micron Technologies's late-Tuesday quarterly results.
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Herman Miller Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Wednesday after the furniture company's results and outlook topped Wall Street estimates. Herman Miller shares surged 8.7% after hours, following a 1.9% rise to close the regular session at $37.83. The company reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $46 million, or 78 cents a share, compared with $32.2 million, or 53 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings were 88 cents a share. Revenue rose to $671 million from $618 million in the year-ago quarter. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast earnings of 78 cents a share on revenue of $657.2 million. Herman Miller expects earnings of 77 cents to 81 cents on revenue of $650 million to $670 million in the first quarter, while analysts had forecast 76 cents a share on revenue of $651.6 million.
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Micron stock on track for best one-day gain in nearly 8 years
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Amazon's competitors will host sales of their own around Prime Day.
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Oil fell on Thursday, erasing some of the previous session's strong gains, as traders eye the G20 summit in Japan and a meeting of OPEC and other oil producers to decide on an extension of output cuts.
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