Hong Kong — Asian traders trod carefully Tuesday as profit-taking from the previous day’s rally offset a healthy lead from Wall Street, while the pound briefly fell after authorities said a blast in Manchester could be terrorism-related. Global markets pushed higher on Monday as energy firms benefited from a surge in oil prices as oil cartel Opec and Russia look set to extend an output cut, while US dealers welcomed an optimistic survey on US manufacturing. But crude was unable to press on with gains on Tuesday, weighing on petroleum-linked firms ahead of a meeting between Opec and Russia later in the week. With US President Donald Trump on his first overseas trip, the political crisis that drove huge losses last week has calmed for now. However, the Washington Post reported that the president had asked two top intelligence officials in March to help push back against a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe into his campaign’s possible links with Russia. Markets were hammered ...
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