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Global markets were notably calmer today as investors looked past last week’s turbulence and welcomed signs of a tentative thaw in U.S.–China trade relations. Asian stocks, which opened sharply lower, managed to recover most of their earlier losses by the close, while both European indexes and U.S. futures traded higher. The relative calm suggested that […]

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