China’s Premier Li Keqiang told the state media on Monday that the Chinese economy maintains a recovering trend overall, as reported by Reuters.

China will increase imports of agricultural products from Vietnam, Li further noted.

Market reaction

These comments don't seem to be having a noticeable impact on risk perception and safe haven flows continue to dominate the financial markets. As of writing, the US Dollar Index was up 0.25% on the day at 109.90 and the US stock index futures were losing between 0.75% and 0.9%.