Stock Trader’s Guide to Navigating High Stakes Trump-Xi Talks

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in 2017. 

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Investors are looking for further signs of easing tensions between President Donald Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping to help remove an overhang on Chinese markets, with geopolitical and trade issues in focus.

Expectations for a concrete deal between the world’s two largest economies remain low, though the meeting of the two leaders may calm trade tensions between their countries, analysts say. Any such improvement, along with a potential easing of curbs on US tech exports to China, could boost Chinese exporters and tech hardware makers.