The market misunderstood the reason why Trump "surrendered": it mistakenly understood the modal particle as an affirmative sentence

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On April 7, Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, was interviewed by Fox News. When host Jimmy D asked whether Trump would consider suspending tariffs for 90 days, Hassett said "Yep" before responding, and then stated: "I think the president will make his decision... even if you think there will be some negative impacts on trade, that would only account for a small part of GDP". The financial blog Zero Hedge explained that the market seemed to have misinterpreted "Yep" as agreement, but he was simply indicating that he had heard the question clearly.

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