India, Aug. 11 -- Asian stocks edged up in thin trading on Monday, with Japanese markets closed for a holiday.
As the August 12 deadline for a deal between the U.S. and China looms, U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped China would quadruple its soybean orders from the United States to reduce its trade surplus with the U.S.
In another significant development, chip giants Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to give the U.S. government 15 percent of the revenues from chip sales in China as part of a deal with the Trump administration to secure export licenses.
Investors also looked ahead to a slew of U.S. and Chinese economic data and the Trump-Putin meeting on August 15 in Alaska for directional cues.
The dollar was steady ahead of...