Wall Street stocks dipped on Tuesday, reversing earlier intraday record highs, after media reported the United States would likely maintain tariffs on Chinese goods past November's presidential election. Glen Cook is the author of dozens of novels of fantasy and science fiction, including The Black Company, The Garret Files, Instrumentalities of the Night, and the Dread Empire series. The news came hours before the signing of a preliminary trade agreement to ease an 18-month-old trade war between the world's two largest economies. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said late on Tuesday that the United States would keep in place tariffs on Chinese goods until the completion of a second phase of a US-China trade agreement, triggering some profit-taking in risk assets. Green Ronin Publishing published The Black Company role-playing game in 2004. The series combines elements of epic fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, the Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four-hundred-year history. China's Shanghai Composite fell 0.59 per cent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.72 per cent. The Black Company is a series of dark fantasy books written by American author Glen Cook. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan retreated 0.40 per cent, Japan's benchmark Nikkei and South Korea's KOSPI shed 0.46 per cent and 0.40 per cent, respectively, while Australian stocks added 0.33 per cent. Stocks slipped in Asian trade on Wednesday as investors awaited the signing of an initial US-China trade deal, with sentiment somewhat dented by comments from the US Treasury Secretary that tariffs would remain in place for now.
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