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Trump and China called a trade war truce — now what?

It is unclear how the market will react to the news, given last week’s massive rally

The G-20 meeting is over, and there’s good news and bad news for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other stock market indices.

Here’s the good news following a Saturday night dinner between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires: The US said it won’t impose 25% tariffs on Chinese goods in January, as it had planned, and China agreed to buy more US agricultural goods. It’s essentially a cease-fire, for now, in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

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