Asian markets rally on growing trade deal hopes

HONG KONG: Asian markets rallied with oil and high-yielding currencies Monday as investors grow increasingly confident that China and the United States will eventually hammer out a deal to end their long-running trade war.

While talks ended Friday in Beijing with no deal, negotiators shift to Washington this week with Donald Trump saying discussions were going 'extremely well' and suggesting he could extend a March 1 truce deadline for an agreement to be reached.