Stock markets

The EU remains hopeful it will strike a deal to avoid steep levies Trump has threatened on its exports to the US.

Investors were buoyed by a better-than-expected jobs report and rising hope of US-China trade talks.

The US president blames the first quarterly GDP decline in three years on his Democratic predecessor.

The president amps up attack against US central bank boss calling him "a major loser" for not lowering interest rates.

The international economic group predicts "notable markdowns, but not recession".

The US president says Jerome Powell's "termination" as central bank chair "cannot come fast enough!"

The Trump administration's trade policy shakeup has caused global economic turmoil.

The US president exempts some Chinese goods such as smartphones from levies but says it is temporary.