Live for the NASDAQ market site overlooking New York City's Times Square.

This is Fast Money. I'm Melissa Lee. Our traders on the desk are Tim Seymour,

Steve Grosso, Guy Dami. We are also joined tonight by Jeff Mills, Chief Investment

Officer Brinmore Trust. Tonight on Fast. joined tonight on fast say bye bye babbah the trade war taking a new

twist and taking down the markets new reports that the Trump

administration's considering blocking US.S. investment in China

that includes possibly delisting all Chinese socks from U.S. exchanges.

Those headlines sending stocks sharply lower today.

Let's get the latest on this developing story.

Aaman Javaras is live at the White House with the details.

Aaman.

Yeah, Melissa, that's right.

I'm told that those headlines that crossed earlier today, those are accurate headlines that's what got

the market's attention they are considering some measures behind the scenes here at the

White House to stop uh... u.s investors being able to invest in chinese companies in one way shape or form or

another but they're they're very early on in those conversations is my

understanding and there's there's no timeline at this point for any fundamental decision.

All of this is framed in the guise of investor protection.

The idea here is that there's a concern that there are some Chinese companies that may be listed in the US

that aren't exactly what they're purported to be because of the

accounting standards and other differences between the way the two countries handle

corporate disclosures. So that is being discussed behind the scenes.

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