(Bloomberg) --
Good morning Americas. Here's the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help you start the day:
- China will halve tariffs on some $75 billion of imports from the U.S. later this month, reciprocating a U.S. action and likely satisfying part of the interim trade deal
- European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said a decade of crisis fighting has left policy makers with few options for more monetary stimulus, just as new concerns such as the coronavirus outbreak arise
- Meanwhile, an unexpected drop in German factory orders suggests Europe's largest economy hasn't yet seen the worst of its slowdown
- The U.S. job market probably got off to a healthy start in 2020 but may also lose some of the luster President Donald Trump boasted about this week
- Switzerland is in danger of being labeled a currency manipulator by the Trump administration, a decade after it ran afoul of the U.S. over banking secrecy
- Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid's ambition to lift U.K. economic growth toward its post-war average of almost 3% a year is “quite unrealistic,” according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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