Insulting Powell, giving in to China: Trump's game that's lifting stock markets

By the end of the week, stock prices on the world's largest stock exchange continued to rise, largely thanks to investors' hopes for an easing of trade tensions between the US and China.

Global stock markets rose sharply last week as US President Donald Trump's conciliatory messages boosted investor hopes for a trade deal between the US and China. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.5 percent to 40,113 points, while the S&P 500 rose 4.6 percent to 5,525 points and the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 6.7 percent to 17,382 points. European stock markets also rose sharply last week, thanks to strong quarterly result…