United States and Chinese officials said they had agreed on a framework for a trade truce, which removed China's export restrictions on rare earths.

The Asian currency positioning poll is focused on what analysts and fund managers believe are the current market positions in nine Asian emerging market currencies: the Chinese yuan, South Korean won, Singapore dollar, Indonesian rupiah, Taiwan dollar, Indian rupee, Philippine peso, Malaysian ringgit and the Thai baht.

President Trump announced early Wednesday that the US had reached a trade agreement with China following two days of negotiations in London. “Our deal

The U.S. and China have reached consensus on trade, representatives from both sides said after high-level talks in London.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday called on China to uphold its commitments under an initial U.S. trade agreement reached in Geneva last month, hours after he and other U.S. and Chinese officials agreed on a new framework to implement the deal.

The treasury secretary's remarks indicate that the Trump administration might be more inclined to shift the self-imposed deadline as it gets closer.

With more than 600 dead pythons under her belt, Amy Siewe aka the "Python Huntress," is one of a handful of women among hundreds of men hunting the invasive Burmese python in Florida's Everglades wetland ecosystem. This report produced by Jillian Kitchener.