Asia-Pacific markets mixed on Monday after stronger-than-expected Chinese PMI data, while investors awaited potential stimulus announcements from this week’s National People’s Congress in Beijing. Investors also braced for the March 4 deadline of President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs.
Chinese authorities are instructing the country's top artificial intelligence entrepreneurs and researchers to avoid travel to the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Even unfilled tariff threats are beginning to alter consumer and business behavior, with markets stumbling on news of yet more sanctions on China.
according to calculations by The Wall Street Journal based on data released Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics.
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting toward the close of its worst month since April, and U.S. stock indexes are mixed following an economic report highlighting both encouraging and discouraging trends.