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Stocks roll over after Trump reportedly OK's additional tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports

Stocks fell sharply Friday after Bloomberg reported President Donald Trump instructed his administration to follow through with tariffs on roughly $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, despite a fresh round of trade negotiations scheduled to take place.
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Stocks surrendered their gains Friday after Bloomberg reported President Donald Trump instructed his administration to follow through with tariffs on roughly $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, despite a fresh round of trade negotiations between the world's largest economies having been proposed days earlier.

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Here's the scoreboard:

Shares of large-cap industrial stocks like Caterpillar (-0.6%) fell following the report. Boeing (+0.4%) pared gains after trading up more than 1%. Treasury yields jumped. Offshore, the Chinese yuan sank 0.36% against the dollar.

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