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Waiting for the Fed. Equity markets trade cautiously as central bank chairman Jerome Powell prepares to begin his 2-day testimony on Capitol Hill. Trade talks are back on, with a ‘constructive’ phone call between Washington and Beijing breaking the U.S.-China stalemate. Chinese factory inflation falls flat for the month of June following almost three years of unbroken growth, raising fears of a manufacturing slowdown. And in corporate news, Airbus is set to leapfrog Boeing as the world’s largest plane maker as the U.S. firm sees deliveries slide by 37%.