2025-08-19
14 分钟Trump, Zelensky and European leaders discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.
Plus, why Europe's stock markets face a crisis of inactivity.
It's not just that European markets are failing to keep the young, exciting companies.
It's also that it's starting to lose some of its bigger companies.
AstraZeneca, Shell, Total Energies,
they've all reviewed potentially moving their listings to New York as well.
And the White House is in talks with Intel for a 10% U.S. government stake.
It's Monday, August 18th.
I'm Sabrina Siddiqui for The Wall Street Journal, covering for Alex Osola.
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President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House today,
along with a group of top European officials on a path to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump called the meeting after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday,
where the Russian leader rejected a ceasefire and called on Ukraine to cede land in the country's east in exchange for a freeze in the front line elsewhere.
Trump signaled greater openness to U.S. security guarantees for any peace deal in Ukraine when asked by a reporter.
We'll let you know that maybe later today.
We're meeting with seven great leaders of great countries also.
And we'll be talking about that.
They'll all be involved.