Sydney — The dollar jumped to a three-week high on Tuesday, while stock markets in Asia ticked up, as a landmark US-North Korea summit in Singapore raised hope of a deal to end a nuclear standoff on the Korean peninsula. US President Donald Trump said he had forged a "good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the start of their historic meeting, just months after they traded insults and tension spiralled in the region over the reclusive regime’s nuclear programmes. Kim said the meeting was "a good prelude to peace", but there was some unease among investors about the outcome of the talks given the tense relations between the two nations. The combatants of the 1950-53 Korean War are technically still at war, as the conflict, in which millions of people died, was concluded only with a truce. The dollar rose against the safe-haven yen, while the Korean won gained 0.2% to edge above a recent two-week trough. US stock futures were barely changed, with E-Minis for the S&P...
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