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"From our conversations, trade had either fallen out of focus or had generated optimism among many investors, with [Trump's] announcement coming during a period of relative calm and few announcements compared with 2018", Goldman wrote on Monday evening, describing the extent to which the administration's latest trade escalation hit at a time when market participants had become ambivalent, at best, and complacent, at worst, about a prospective Sino-US trade pact. Once you've tackled prospective