 Risk appetite has a strong come back today on progress in US-China trade negotiations. It's reported that China is considering to response to Trump's request and cut auto tariffs down from 40% to 15%. Trump also tweeted that there were productive conversations with China and urged people to watch for important announcements. At the same time, the arrest of Huawei's executive faded into background as both sides delinked it to trade negotiations. For now, Australian Dollar is the strongest one for today, followed by New Zealand Dollar. Sterling is trying to pare back some losses but it's still feeling heavy. The pound's fate will depends on the result of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's quick EU tour, in particular the meeting with European Council President Donal Tusk at 1600 GMT. Dollar is trading as the weakest one, followed by Canadian and Yen. Technically, there is no new developments in the markets, while the pound recovers, it's near term bearish for further decline after brief consolidations. Australian Dollar may finally make up its mind for a rebound and seems to have defended 0.7199 against Dollar. Euro is a tricky one for now as EUR/USD and EUR/JPY are staying in near term range. We'll see if the pull back in EUR/GBP and EUR/AUD would spill over to other pairs. In other markets, at the time of writing, FTSE is up 1.88%, CAC is up 2.12%, CAC is up 2.15%. German 10 year yield is up 0.0033 at 0.25. Italian 10 year yield is up 0.0042 at 3.101. German-Italian spread remains below 300. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei dropped -0.34%, Hong Kong HSI rose 0.07%, China Shanghai SSE rose 0.37%, Singapore Strait Times dropped -0.43%. Also, Japan 10 year JGB yield rose 0.0057 to 0.047. Released from US, headline PPI slowed more than expected to 2.5% yoy in November. But core PPI surprised on the upside and accelerated to 2.7% yoy. | 
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