Global stocks sank Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with talks that are aimed at averting a trade war with China. Equities were also dented by poor eurozone economic data, and as Trump cast doubt on a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Trump (is) continuing to drive uncertainty over global trade,” said analyst Joshua Mahony at trading firm IG. “European markets are following their Asian counterparts lower, as a pessimistic tone from Trump is compounded by downbeat economic data,” he added. Markets had surged Monday after US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said they had agreed to pull back from imposing threatened tariffs on billions of dollars of goods, and continue talks on a variety of trade issues. However, Trump has declared that he was “not satisfied” with the status of the talks, fuelling worries that the world’s top two economies could still slug out an economically pain...
Sexual Satisfaction Relationship researchers, matchmakers, and people seeking connection with one another and fulfilling relationships are interested in what ingredients go into sexual and relationship satisfaction. Presumably, though intervention and outcome research is still scant and no one has figured out the secret to happy relationships for everyone, understanding the underlying factors and modifying or compensating for them may help people improve their relationships. Of course, not everyone wants a monogamous dyadic relationship, but starting with couples is easier from a research design point of view, and dyadic relationships remain more common and present challenges in spite of their seeming simplicity. It is important to extend relationship research further with regard to other forms of relationship. Literature Review Mark and colleagues (2017), the authors of the current study, note that much of the prior research on relationships has looked at a narr...