The upcoming Trump-Xi meeting could finalize a China trade deal. Apple, Meta and Microsoft lead huge earnings. A Fed rate cut looms.

The market enters the fourth full week of the government shutdown with international trade and domestic rates in focus.

Topping the agenda at every stop is trade, with negotiators still ironing out the details of pacts expected to be signed during Trump’s three-country Asia tour.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five years.

As the week comes to a close, let’s take a look at the top stories that made headlines over the past few days. Xi Jinping Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Turmoil Chinese President Xi Jinping is facing an extraordinary challenge within the Chinese Communist Party,

Nearly one in six officials who had Central Committee seats were absent from a major conclave, many of them now disgraced.