Record Highs: Trade Deal Hopes Fuel Stock Market Surge to Fresh Peaks
Global stock markets are surging on mere hopes of a U.S.-China trade peace. Over the weekend, high-level talks yielded “significant advances” toward an agreement to resolve the long-running trade war ts2.tech. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described a “very substantial framework” now in place, and China’s negotiator Li Chenggang said both sides reached a preliminary consensus toward a deal ts2.tech ts2.tech. While no agreement is signed yet, the prospect of a truce has been enough to send markets to new heights torre.news. Presidents Trump and Xi are slated to meet Thursday in South Korea to potentially bless the tentative deal framework reuters.com.