The tone around the ceasefire talks in Ukraine genuinely appears to be improving.

We've been here before so it's tough to say whether this is real progress on yet-another headfake. Only time will tell but Trump's comments today are encouraging:

  • Good conversation with European leaders
  • Long discussion, and things are seemingly going well
  • Had a long talk with Zelensky
  • We had numerous conversations with President Putin
  • European leaders want to get it ended

Germany's Merz also sounded unusually upbeat today.

Source: Investing Live