The Dow was up more than 700 points while the S&B and NASDAQ futures have added more than 1% in value.

It comes after another volatile trading session yesterday tied to President Trump's tariffs,

but the president says he's not backing off his trade wars.

And when asked if the overall tariffs are permanent or open to

negotiation, a point that his advisor struggled to clarify last week, the president insisted that they

can both be true. Would you be open to a pause in tariffs to allow for negotiations?

Well, we're not looking at that.

We have many, many countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us,

and they're going to be fair deals.

And in certain cases, they're going to be paying substantial tariffs.

There'll be fair deals. There can be permanent tariffs and there

can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs. We need open borders.

So we're going to get fair deals and good deals with every country and if we don't, we're going

to have nothing to do with them. They're not going to be allowed to participate in the United States.

And I will say this, virtually every country wants to negotiate.

If I didn't do what I did over the last couple of weeks, you wouldn't have anybody wants to

negotiate. We would have gone to these countries.

You want to talk and they were, well, we don't want to talk. Now they're coming to us.

Well, the tariff battle with China is escalating to a whole new level this morning in a social

media post issued yesterday. President Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on China if the

communist nation did not withdraw its 34% retaliatory tariff on U.S. goods by today. In response,

China said it would, quote, fight to the end and take additional countermeasures

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