Trade backlash from the US and China sticks for recession stocks pushed by Reuters
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LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks fell Monday after their worst week in 2019 as hoping for an upcoming trade with the US and China. The deal was broken and aroused fear of a new round of tit-to-tat tariffs.
The death left the investors to disprove China for Washington raising Friday's $ 200 billion of Chinese goods prices. The move followed accusations by US President Donald Trump that Beijing had rejected previous commitments.
On Monday, Trump warned China not to oppose an increase in tariffs he imposed last week.
Scaling could tip the US economy to recession, a risk flagged by the inversion of US government bond yield curve between three-month and 1[ads1]0-year rates for the second time in less than a week.
The US curve has reversed before every recession over the past 50 years. It gave a false signal just once.
"In the short term, the chances of recession have increased, so stock markets will be priced at the back of it," says Justin Oneukwusi, portfolio manager at Legal & General Investment Management.
Pan-European slid 0.5%.
Chinese stocks stumbled. The benchmark portfolio and blue-chip CSI 300 indices accounted for 1.2% and 1.8%, respectively
Offshore fell to its lowest for more than four months, 6.88 to US dollars.
Trade conversations that Washington displaced promises of concrete changes in Chinese law and Beijing said it would not swallow any "bitter fruit" that damaged its interests.
"How far this escalates is what the market is very worried about … What matters is what affects growth, and that's what the market really fears, "Oneukwusi said.
White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow told Fox News that China needed to accept" very strong "enforcement regulations to secure an agreement. to spell the point was Beijing's reluctance to incorporate legislative amendments that had been agreed.
Kudlow said US tariffs would remain in place while negotiations continued and Trump was likely to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at a G20 summit in Japan late June.
"The risk of a fully-fledged trade war has increased significantly, although both sides still want a trade agreement and conversations are expected to continue," said UBS economist Tao Wang.
Washington said it is preparing to raise tariffs on all remaining imports from China, worth around $ 300 billion.
"Our fundamental issue is for limited progress and Chinese retaliation," said Michael Hanson, head of global macro strategy at TD Securities.
Major currencies were relatively quiet. The euro was stable at $ 1.11234, and the dollar slightly changed against a basket of currencies at 97,270.
"We have seen quite limited movements among currencies, despite some serious rhetoric between the United States and China so far. It remains a weaker yuan, which should be a warning sign for risk-based funds," said Marc-André Fongern at MAF Global Forex.
Emerging Market shares were down 0.9 percent, fluctuating near January decline, JPMorgan (NYSE 🙂 said it had reduced the risk of emerging markets for the second time in so many months on Monday following the withdrawal of the trade negotiations in the US and China.
In commodities, oil premiums jumped on growing concerns about mid-eastern disturbances, with futures rising 1.8% to $ 7.90 per barrel and US West Texas Intermediate futures up 1.5% at $ 62, 56 per barrel
In digital currencies, over $ 7,000 fluctuated on Monday, near nine-month highs, as the largest crypto course's 2019 rally gathered steam.
