US & China trade talks

Efforts to pencil in a new round of negotiations come a week after President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met in Japan and agreed to restart their stalled negotiations.

China's top trade negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He, had warned earlier that Beijing "must respond" to any US tariffs.

About 20 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.2 percent to 25,682.58.

Spot gold was down 0.1 per cent to $1,285.41 per ounce at 1129 GMT, close to its lowest since Jan

Donald Trump said he had asked China to immediately remove all tariffs on US agricultural products because trade talks were progressing well

Investors look ahead to a week chock-full of crucial events including trade talks between China and the US.

SINGAPORE: Oil prices today recouped some of the previous day’s losses after Beijing said it would send a delegation to Washington to try to resolve trade disputes between the United States and China that have roiled global markets. Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at $71.03 per barrel at 0455 GMT, up 27 cents, or 0.4 percent, from their last close. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were up 5 cents at $65.06 a barrel, held back somewhat by rising U.S. crude production and storage levels. Both…