Trump said the U.S. may send out tariff rebate checks, though lowering the national debt would take precedence.

US stocks are floating near all-time highs as Wall Street maintains cautious optimism that Washington might ink more trade deals, avoiding a worst-case scenario of extraordinarily high tariffs and enabling the resilient economy to continue chugging along.

Japan secured a tariff cap and pledged $550B in U.S. investments, with protections on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals under the new trade deal.

The following is a chronology of major events related to negotiations between Japan and the United States over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff measures. April 3 -- Trump imposes additional 25 percent tariff on all U.

A US-Japan trade agreement, capping auto and goods tariffs at 15%, is setting a new standard for global trade negotiations. Economists believe this be

President Trump will get to decide where to invest Japanese money and the United States will keep 90 percent of the profits, the White House said.

The S&P 500 and the Dow followed their global counterparts higher on Thursday, and Treasury yields reversed their three-day slide after a trade deal between the United States and Japan provided a welcome sign of progress in President Donald Trump's multi-front tariff negotiations.