India, Aug. 18 -- Asian stocks rose broadly on Monday as investors reacted to ongoing U.S.-Russia talks on Ukraine and looked ahead to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's upcoming Jackson Hole speech for clues on whether the U.S. central bank will cut interest rates next month.
The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Putin in Alaska yielded no concrete agreements, but Russia agreed to "game-changing" security guarantees for Ukraine, helping inject new momentum into stalled efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
The leaders of the U.K., France and Germany will accompany Ukraine's president for talks with Trump at the White House today in a bid to come to a negotiated settlement in the three-and-a-half-year-ol...