President Trump signals that China, the EU, and Japan could all reach trade deals with Washington.

Plus, the U.S. says time is ticking on efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

We're prepared to be engaged in this as long as it takes, but not indefinitely, not without progress.

If this is not possible, we're going to need to move on.

And Netflix posts a record profit with no fallout from the trade war.

It's Friday, April 18th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

and here is the AM edition of What's News,

the top headlines and business

stories moving your world today.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the outline of a deal to end the war in Ukraine is being

considered by Kiev, with Washington hopeful to hear

back soon. However, in response to a question by Journal National Security correspondent Michael Gordon,

America's top diplomat today said U.S. patients to negotiate an end to the conflict has its limits.

We need to figure out here now, a matter of days whether this is doable

in the short term, because if it's not, then I think we're just going to move on from our

perspective. The president feels very strongly about that. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy

to this, and there are a lot of things going on in the world right now that we need to be focused on.

So this is important, but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserve just as much if not more attention. Those comments

followed talks held in Paris yesterday that French officials had hailed as a moment of

convergence after feeling cut out of prior negotiations about the future of Ukraine. Rubio, Trump envoy, Steve Whitkoff, senior Ukrainian and

European officials attended the talks, and a follow-up meeting could be held in the U.K.

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