At the annual Milken Institute Global Conference, the anxious talk was about tariffs and hopes for trade agreements and de-escalation.

Dealmakers and C.E.O.s, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, converged on the Milken Institute Global Conference amid wider concerns about tariffs and the economy.Mike Blake/ReutersThe mood at Milken

As dealmakers descended on the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles this week for the annual Milken Institute Global Conference, they were laser-focused on one type of deal: trade deals.

The threat of an intensifying trade war cast a shadow over the event, Lauren Hirsch reports.

Many business giants in attendance — including Bill Ackman, Jensen Huang and Ken Griffin — started the year imagining how good things could be under President Trump. But talk at this week’s event, behind the scenes at least, was about how bad it could get. Speculation ranged from cautious optimism

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