Investing.com - The main focus of the market on Thursday is the highly-anticipated meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping later in the day at Trump's Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida.
The two-day summit between the world's two most powerful leaders is expected to cover differences over trade, currencies and North Korea.
Trump has repeatedly criticized China's economic policies and pledged to label China a currency manipulator on the first day of his administration, but so far he has not.
But relations, while improving on the rocky start that followed Trump’s election victory, are far from being warm and fuzzy.
Last week, Trump tweeted that the meeting "will be a very difficult one" because the U.S. can no longer deal with massive trade deficits and job losses.
That has kept investors on edge, knocking riskier assets, such as stocks, and forcing investors to seek shelter in safe-haven assets such as the yen, gold and U.S. Treasuries.
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