Daily Briefing: - UK PM Theresa May adds cash boost for Brexit-backing towns - Estonia’s opposition centre-right Reform party wins elections - U.S. and China appear to be close to a deal to roll back tariffs
first thing. Shanghai and Tokyo benchmarks outperformed with gains of more than 1 percent following a Wall Street Journal article saying the agreement could be signed around a summit on March 27.against the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
“We have a gentleman that likes a very strong dollar at the Fed,” Trump told a Conservative Political Action Conference. “I want a strong dollar, but I want a dollar that’s great for our country, not a dollar that is so strong that it is prohibitive for us to deal with other nations.” Sterling was about a quarter-percent higher against the dollar, with the latest weekend Brexit reports showing some possible softening of the UK’s demands on Brussels to change provisions for the Irish border backstop and also a softening of objections to UK PM Theresa May’s deal among pro-Brexit factions within her own ruling party. Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields were firm above 2.75 percent and close to their highest since January.
Elsewhere, Greece’s benchmark 10-year government bond yields dropped to their lowest level in over a year on Monday, close to a 12-year low, following a two-notch ratings upgrade from Moody’s late last week.
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