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Investors' optimism about a breakthrough in trade talks between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the G-20 summit in Argentina was short lived, with the major market indexes plunging over 3% Tuesday on an ominous signal from the bond market known as "inversion of the yield curve." This is when the interest rate for the two-year government bond rises above that of the five-year Treasury note – indicating an imminent economic slowdown.
