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US TSYS SUMMARY: Following a tweet from US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

earlier in the day which indicated positive developments in trade talks with

Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stated that negotiations have made

progress and will continue next week in Washington.

- Combined with a tentative truce between Republicans and Democrats over

domestic spending, progress on trade talks is fuelling an improvement in global

risk sentiment, providing a bid to equities.

- US TSYs have traded largely flat this morning, albeit with modest flattening

at the very long-end of the curve. Current yield levels: 2-year 2.498%, 10-year

2.654%, 30-year 2.9897%. The 2s30s spread has narrowed to 49.0bps from 50.0bps.

- The Mar-19 US TSY future trades at 122-05 near the bottom of the morning's

range.

- Euro$ futures are flat/0.5 ticks higher in whites, 1.0-1.5 ticks lower in

reds/greens/blues with greens undeforming.