Trump promises trade deals are coming, last chance for peace for Russia

Joshua Gibson FXStreet

President Donald Trump delivered another litany of comments on a range of comments on Monday. According to President Trump, trade negotiations are progressing nicely, and the oft-touted trade deals that are just around the corner continue to be nearly ready to be announced. Trump also noted that he speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin "a lot", and that Trump is demanding a peace resolution in Ukraine after campaigning on a plan to have the Ukraine invasion resolved within his first month of resuming office.

Trump has suggested that he will impose 100% tariffs on Russia, as well as secondary sanctions on other countries that purchase Crude Oil products from Russia if a peace deal isn’t struck in the next 50 days.

Key highlights

Trade “great for settling wars.”

Will talk to countries on tariffs.

Open to trade talks including to Europe.

EU coming over to discuss trade.

Trade deals made.

Speak to Putin a lot.

Putin knows what a fair deal is.

Think will get deal with Putin done.

Ukraine wants peace deal.

We can do secondary, probably 100%.

Thune coming over to talk.

I felt we had deal on Ukraine about four times.

We should have had a deal done.

Patriot batteries will be sent within days.

Will start arriving soon.

Weapons shipment broader than Patriots.

This is chance for peace.

Author

Joshua Gibson

FXStreet

Joshua joins the FXStreet team as an Economics and Finance double major from Vancouver Island University with twelve years' experience as an independent trader focusing on technical analysis.

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