{"id":34070,"date":"2018-03-26T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/26\/markets-edge-higher-on-hopes-us-and-china-can-resolve-trump-tariff-row-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:46:33","slug":"markets-edge-higher-on-hopes-us-and-china-can-resolve-trump-tariff-row-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=34070","title":{"rendered":"Markets edge higher on hopes US and China can resolve Trump tariff row -as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors still edgy on fears of a full blown trade war between world\u2019s two largest economies 2.46pm BST The US markets have made a bright start after last week\u2019s rout following news that the US planned to impose $60bn of tariffs on Chinese imports.Investors have turned slightly more positive on hopes that the US and China could resolve the row before it turned into a full blown trade war, following positive comments over the weekend from US treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. S&amp;P said we were not in a trade war yet but much would depend on China\u2019s plans for retaliation to the $60bn worth of sanctions announced by Donald Trump last week. 1.47pm BST Ahead of the US market open, a positive bit of economic data.The Chicago Fed\u2019s national activity index has jumped from +0.02 in January to +0.88 in February. January\u2019s figure was however revised down from +0.12. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2018\/mar\/26\/markets-wary-as-trump-tariffs-continue-to-unnerve-investors-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">Markets edge higher on hopes US and China can resolve Trump tariff row -as it happened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors still edgy on fears of a full blown trade war between world\u2019s two largest economies 2.46pm BST The US markets have made a bright start after last week\u2019s rout following news that the US planned to impose $60bn of tariffs on Chinese imports.Investors have turned slightly more positive on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}