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(Sept 5): China and the US announced that face-to-face negotiations aimed at ending their tariff war will be held in Washington in the coming weeks, amid skepticism on both sides that any substantive progress can be made.

WASHINGTON (July 12): High-level trade talks between the US and China have ground to a halt as the Trump administration threatens to escalate a trade war that shows little sign of abating, according to five people familiar with the matter.

LONDON (March 14): The trigger of Article 50 is the event traders have been waiting for since the UK voted to leave the European Union. Yet as Prime Minister Theresa May approaches her end-March deadline for launching Brexit, there is no consensus on what

SINGAPORE (June 28): BNP Paribas’ economic research department has revised its forecasts down by about 0.3pp this year and almost 1.5pp for 2017, with additional expectations of 2018 growth to be “marginally lower than previously assumed”, as the le