Investors in the sector have taken notice, discounting industry stocks when Warren was riding high. You are reading The Finance 202, our must-read tipsheet on where Wall Street meets Washington. "Friday’s announcement of an interim trade deal between the world’s two biggest economies has lifted prospects for the global economy, several analysts said. The pound dropped by the most since July after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would fix a hard deadline of December 2020 to reach a trade deal with the European Union. — Xi buys time with phase 1 deal: “For Chinese President Xi Jinping, the phase-one trade deal with [President Trump] isn’t exactly a reason to pop open the champagne,” Bloomberg News reports.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2019 12:33 UTC