“Markets are bad at pricing geopolitics and trade tensions,” says James Cheo, senior investment strategist at Bank of Singapore, in a report. “It is hard for markets to price and predict what China and the US would do. The uncertainty is whether the Chinese will retaliate further and how [US President Donald] Trump responds from there.”

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