A senior White House official said the U.S. is “absolutely not” considering an interim trade deal with China. Bloomberg News reported earlier Thursday the Trump administration discussed putting together a limited trade deal that would delay and remove some China tariffs, citing five people familiar with the matter. The news had driven stocks to session highs. Stocks pared most of the gains with major indexes only little changed after the senior White House official denied the report on such an interim deal. Trump on Wednesday announced he would delay the tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods from Oct. 1 to ... (full story)