TRUMP EXPRESSED OPTIMISM ABOUT RUSSIA-UKRAINE PEACE TALKS, SAYING BOTH SIDES APPEARED READY TO REACH AN AGREEMENT, TELLING THE FINANCIAL TIMES “I THINK THEY’RE BOTH AT THE POINT OF SAYING, ‘LET’S MAKE A DEAL,’” THOUGH UKRAINIAN NEGOTIATORS DID NOT SHARE HIS OPTIMISM

President Trump told the Financial Times that both Russia and Ukraine appear close to agreeing to a deal, saying "I think they're both at the point of saying, 'Let's make a deal,'" though the headline is truncated and the remaining context is not provided. Peace-deal expectations typically transmit through risk appetite and energy pricing: a credible de-escalation signal tends to compress geopolitical risk premia, weigh on safe-haven demand for gold and the Swiss franc, and pressure European natural gas and oil benchmarks on reduced supply-disruption fears. Ukrainian sovereign bonds and hryvnia-linked instruments are the most directly exposed, as their pricing embeds war-risk and reconstruction assumptions, while European defense equities and Russian-linked assets are likely to reprice in the opposite direction on any shift in sanctions expectations. Traders should watch for any formal sanctions-relief language or negotiating-round announcements, as well as European gas storage and Brent crude inventory data, to judge whether the rhetoric translates into durable repricing.

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