London — World shares ticked up on Friday, buoyed by comments from US President Donald Trump that talks aimed at dialling down the damaging trade war with China were “moving right along”.

Trump’s relatively upbeat tone in comments on Thursday was enough to encourage riskier bets by investors, despite a lack of agreement over whether existing tariffs should be dropped as part of an initial deal to ease the long standoff...

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