Story and Meetings

cnbc: Instead, he stressed that the high-level meeting later this month was very, very important and determinative, according to CNN. There were no other intermediate meetings scheduled, said Kudlow on CNBC. The story is unchanged. Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said in an interview on CNBC that there was no cancellation after media reports suggested that the United States had turned down an offer by Chinese negotiators to hold preliminary talks this week ahead of a critical meeting in Washington. We are moving towards negotiations. Read More A person familiar with the matter told CNN on Tuesday that the Trump administration declined an invitation from Beijing to convene a second deputy-level meeting ahead of a fresh round of trade negotiations with top officials scheduled for later this month in Washington. Markets, which dipped initially on news that a meeting had been scrapped, bounced back after Kudlow's appearance. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.