SIX MONTHS ago, as President Donald Trump announced a trade war of unprecedented aggression, businesses and investors braced for a slump. Movements in financial markets pointed to a deep recession. American consumers’ confidence nosedived.

By David Lawder, David Milliken and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -International finance chiefs are returning home with a measure of relief over the surprising resilience of the global economy to the cascade of policy shocks through the first nine months of Donald Trump's second U.

Vietnam’s government is targeting annual economic growth of at least 10% over the next five years, even as US tariffs and global trade uncertainty threaten to weigh on exports and investments flows.

The U.S.’s comprehensive trade agreement with Canada and Mexico is set to be reviewed next year and renegotiations of the deal could open more products up for tariffs or other trade restrictions, analysts said.

The Australian dollar rose on Monday, cheered by reasons to be a bit more upbeat on top trade partner China, with data showing its economy reasonably resilient to

"Everyone's talking about it," one strategist said about the debasement trade. "That's the boogeyman right now."