What the market is looking for as US and Chinese trade negotiators meet this week is whether recent de-escalatory signals between the two superpowers will produce a further delay of steep tariffs.

The Stockholm meeting — following similar talks in Geneva and London in recent months — is set to extend a 90-day pause on those tariffs. During the pause, U.S. tariffs were lowered to 30% on Chinese goods, and China set a 10% tariff on U.S. products.

China and the United States on Monday started a fresh round of trade talks in Stockholm on Monday in a bid to ease tensions over tariffs between the