The talks are progressing....

FoxBusiness' Edward Lawrence is tweeting that there was another deputy level trade talk between US/China trade teams today.

The talks are progressing....

The saga continues.

Perhaps helping was at yesterday industrial production and retail sales came in weaker than expected. Retail sales rose 7.2% year on year, which sounds like a lot but that matched the lowest year on year gain this year and is the lowest since 2003. So the squeeze is still on in China to make a deal.

Retail sales for China