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Here is your morning brief for Friday, October 24th. I'm Kate Bollivan for the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump is calling off trade talks with Canada, pointing to a TV ad paid for by the Ontario

government, which features snippets from a Ronald Reagan speech, where he spoke about the negative

impact of tariffs.

Trump called the ad fraudulent and fake and argued that it was designed to interfere with the courts

as they weigh the legality of his global tariffs.

The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for more information.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute said the ad misrepresented

Reagan's address and that the Ontario government didn't ask for permission to use the audio.

The foundation didn't clarify what was inaccurate about the ad. The White House has announced

that a hotly anticipated meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will go ahead in Asia next week.

Thursday's meeting potentially paves the way to de-esculate trade tensions between the world's two largest economies that have flared up as Beijing expanded curbs on exports of rare earth minerals

earlier this month. And Alaska Airlines is restoring operations after a technology outage

caused delays and cancellations late yesterday. Flights from Alaska and its subsidiary Horizon

Air were affected, though flights operated by Hawaiian Airlines, also owned by Alaska, weren't.

Alaska said the problems stemmed from a failure at its primary data centre and that it wasn't a cyber security breach.

Asian markets, end of the day mixed, European stocks are down in midday trading, and US stock futures are pointing to a higher open, ahead of September's consumer price index due at 8.30 a.m. Eastern, having been delayed due to the government shutdown.

And we have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast.

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