Markets shrug off doubled U.S. steel tariffs and Trump complaints of Xi being 'hard to make a deal with'

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Stock markets rose on Wednesday, despite an early morning social media complaint from U.S. President Donald Trump that Chinese President Xi Jinping was “hard to make a deal with,” and a doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs.

“I like President Xi of China, always have, and always will, but he is very tough, and extremely hard to make a deal with!,” Trump wrote Wednesday morning in a post on Truth Social.