London — Jerome Powell just learnt the first rule of trade fight club: no-one wins.

Not even the US Federal Reserve chair, who cut interest rates on Wednesday despite an unemployment rate near the lowest level since the 1960s, a roaring stock market, and an economy that US  President Donald Trump has called the best ever...

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