NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's trade minister Piyush Goyal will lead a trade delegation to the United States starting May 16 to advance trade negotiations, two government officials said on Tuesday, as both countries push for a bilateral trade pact.

With Wall Street embracing another rally, some financial markets are trading like Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” shock never happened. The S&P 500 jumped 3.3%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index pushed back into a bull market.

Asian shares are higher after two days of trade talks between China and the U_S_ made what the U_S_ side said was “substantial progress.”

Stock futures on Wall Street surged Sunday evening as the US cited "substantial progress" in trade negotiations with China, raising hopes of a potential deescalation in tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

By Leika Kihara and Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday signalled that increasing corn imports from the U.S. would be among options in trade negotiations with Washington,

President Donald Trump is expected to spend the majority of his 17th week back in the office traveling overseas to the Middle East.