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World markets dive as Trump sparks trade, North Korea worries

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...
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Trump medical exam won’t include mental fitness test.


US President Donald Trump speaking during a visit to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem Trump will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on December 6, 2017, upending decades of careful US policy and ignoring dire warnings from allies across the Middle East and the world. A senior administration official said Trump would make the landmark and keenly watched announcement at 1 pm (1800 GMT) from the White House. / AFP PHOTO / Menahem KAHANA
Donald Trump’s scheduled medical exam this week won’t include a psychiatric evaluation, the White House said Monday as questions mount over the US president’s mental fitness.
Responding to queries on the subject, spokesman Hogan Gidley said simply: “No.”
“He’s sharp as a tack,” Gidley told reporters on board Air Force One.
Trump, 71, will be examined at the Walter Reed military hospital in a Washington suburb Friday and the results are set to be made public.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump published a letter by his long term doctor Harold Bornstein that stated he was in “excellent physical health.”
Bornstein had previously written about Trump’s health in glowing terms, stating in 2015 he would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Angered by the publication of a bombshell book that raised doubts over his mental faculties, Trump took to Twitter this weekend to describe himself as “a very stable genius” and “like, really smart.”

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