Asian shares gain as trade deal hopes flicker among Trump's mixed signals
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TOKYO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Stock markets in Asia gained on Thursday on hopes that China and the United States may soon seal a preliminary deal to end their 17-month trade war, but conflicting signals from U.S. President Donald Trump kept a lid on investor optimism.Hopes that an agreement would soon emerge stemmed from a Bloomberg report on Wednesday that the two sides were close to a "phase one" deal, and U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks that the talks were going "very well" after he had..