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radio i'm merna brown and i I'm Mary Reichard. Good morning.

Time now for the news. Here's Kent Coveington. Stocks surged on Monday on news of an agreement

between the U.S. and China to de-escalate the trade war. Economic analyst Mark Hamrick called the market gains a good example of a so-called relief rally.

And essentially, we have the equivalent of a truce.

And this is the first step toward what everyone hopes for, which is a total cessation of hostilities.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant told reporters in Geneva,

We have reached an agreement on a 90-day pause and substantially moved down the tariff levels.

Beijing will lower its 125% tariffs on U.S. goods to 10%.

And the White House agreed to drop its 145% rate on Chinese goods to 30%.

The way that works out is that the U.S. is actually dropping the rate to 10%,

but then adding another 20% over concerns about Chinese fentanyl flowing into the U.S.

The deal gives the two countries time to reach a larger agreement.

U.S. Trade Representative James and Greer, though, says any new deal going forward must be fair to the United States.

The United States trade deficit has ballooned over the past several years, ending up at $1.2 trillion deficit in goods as of the end of last year.

That, he said, was a 42% increase over where trade deficits stood at the end of President Trump's first term.

Also, on Monday, the president signed an executive order giving drug makers 30 days to bring down the costs of prescription drugs.

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