Traders are awaiting details of the US-China agreement and confirmation that it will satisfy both Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

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In the days before President Donald Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were tied to ...

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