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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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 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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As President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping gear up for the G-20 summit, U.S. businesses are warning that new 25% duties on $300 billion a year of Chinese goods will wreak widespread direct and collateral damage.
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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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Demonstrators want Donald Trump and other leaders to discuss the mass protests with China
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Billions of dollars worth of China-made goods subject to the Trump administration's tariffs in its trade fight with Beijing are dodging the levies by entering the U.S. via other countries, especially Vietnam.
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