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...
The City boss not only has to come up with a plan to beat the Liverpool press, but convince his players to stay strong if things do not go their way Pep Guardiola has done the hard work at Manchester City. His team are on course for a dominant Premier League title victory, and more importantly he has overseen such an impressive overhaul of his squad that they are set up for success as long as he remains in charge. But the last week has shown that there is still work to be done. Guardiola himself acknowledged that on Monday. RELATED VAN DIJK COULDN'T SLEEP AFTER 'TOTAL PERFORMANCE' AGAINST MAN CITY BOOST FOR LIVERPOOL AS SALAH TRAINS AHEAD OF MAN CITY CLASH ''THUNDERSTORM' MAN CITY'S DERBY DEFEAT WON'T HELP LIVERPOOL' - KLOPP KLOPP OPTIMISTIC SALAH WILL BE READY TO FACE MAN CITY "If we are not able to do that," he said, regarding his side's recent habit of conceding several goals in a short space of time, "t...