US and China Tensions Escalate

5/11/2019 07:04:00 PM........................author:blue light

It's time for markets to end their illusions about a US-China trade deal

Financial markets should abandon any remaining illusion that U.S.-China trade talks are a time-constrained, tradable event that ultimately will result in a deal reassuring investors. Near dead is the notion that both sides would inevitably compromise because they so badly need agreement for their own political and economic purposes.