Market Comment | Risk assets slide as trade war worries aggravate global growth fears

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Risk-off mood intensified as trade tensions dampen chance of a trade truce, mounting concerns about its impact on global growth outlook, amid broad based weakness in manufacturing.

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• Key points:
• Safe-haven yields hit multi year lows, with term premium declining.
• Markets’ see an 80% chance of Fed rate cut in 2019.
• Trump’s tariff action on Mexico weighing heavily on Mexican the peso as well as oil.

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