US equity markets settled little changed as traders digested the latest US-China trade relations and softer-then-expected Chinese economic data - Dow up +7-points The broader S&P500 dipped -0.09%, NASDAQ slipped -0.16%. Apple Inc rose +1.2%, buoyed by an upgrade from Morgan Stanley citing early signs of iPhone stabilization in China. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles fell -1.32% after saying late Wednesday (13 March) that it is recalling nearly 863,000 gasoline-driven vehicles in the US after some didn’t meet federal emissions standards. Bloomberg News reported that a meeting between President Trump and President Xi Jinping to sign an agreement ending trade tensions between US. and China was more likely to take place in April, at the earliest, instead of this month.
