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coming up on balance of power with david westin, arkansas governor is a hitchens and joins talksk -- about trade tensions affecting walmart and other businesses in arkansas. we have the dow and s&p a racing most of their gains. the nasdaq still up .3%. this is bloomberg -- still off .3%. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm david westin. welcome to "balance of power," where the world of politics meets the world of business. on the brief today, sarah mcgregor on president trump's latest signals on china trade talks. from berlin, patrick donahue over angela merkel's shakeup of her party and from brussels, maria tadeo on the eu's meetings to pick a new leadership team. president trump went to japan but started talking about chinese trade and said we are in no big rush. is that a single of where things are headed? sarah: the interesting thing about his comments is it was easy as trump said to win a trade war but proving much more difficult than he thought. by putting the ball in china's court and saying maybe they are not so interested in a deal