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🗓️ 13 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Pennant. And I'm Amna Nawaz on the news hour tonight. Global markets |
0:07.3 | surge as the United States and China announce a deal to roll back steep tariffs for now. |
0:13.0 | Hamas releases the last living American hostage held in Gaza and what's being described as a gesture of goodwill toward the Trump administration. |
0:21.5 | And the president signs an executive order attempting to lower drug prices in line with what other countries pay. |
0:29.0 | One of the most basic challenges is that we don't really know what they pay. |
0:37.3 | The United States Welcome to the news hour. |
0:47.8 | There's been a big breakthrough in the battle over tariffs. |
0:51.1 | The United States and China have paused many of their most punishing tariffs |
0:55.2 | for the time being while they try to reach a larger deal. It's a major thaw in the trade war |
1:00.4 | between the world's two biggest economies and the news brought euphoria to the stock market. The |
1:05.7 | Dow Jones Industrial average skyrocketed by more than 1,100 points. The NASDAQ shot up by more than 4%, and the |
1:12.7 | S&P 500 rose by more than 3%. All of this set the stage for a big day of news from President |
1:18.4 | Trump as he began the first major foreign trip of his second term. Lisa Desjardin starts our coverage. |
1:27.1 | The closing bell rang with good news today on the New York Stock Exchange as the U.S. |
1:32.3 | and China are lowering the temperature on tariffs, at least for now, announcing a three-month |
1:37.9 | pause in their trade war, buying time to reach a broader deal. |
1:42.2 | President Trump today called it a total reset. The relationship |
1:45.8 | is very good. We're not looking to hurt China. China is being hurt very badly. In fact, the tariffs have |
1:52.4 | hurt both countries contributing to a record U.S. trade deficit and market turmoil. Now come temporary |
1:58.9 | tariff reductions that are deeper than investors predicted. |
2:03.1 | The U.S. will deflate Trump's recent 145 percent tariffs on Chinese goods to 30 percent, |
2:09.9 | while China will go from 125 percent on American products to 10 percent. After weekend high-stakes talks with the Chinese in Switzerland, Treasury Secretary Scott |
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