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President Trump says he'll announce a trade deal on Thursday morning.
In an announcement on his platform, Truth Social,
Trump did not say which country is involved in the deal.
But it would be the first agreement since the president imposed tariffs on global imports.
Representatives from the U.S.
and China, meanwhile, are set to hold trade talks this weekend in Switzerland.
The Federal Reserve Board's decision to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged sent stocks higher on Wall Street.
As NPR's Scott Horsley reports,
the central bank is taking a wait-and-see approach to President Trump's trade war.
The Federal Reserve says the worldwide tariffs President Trump ordered last month raise the risk of higher inflation.
higher unemployment, or in the worst case scenario, both.