GLOBAL MARKETS-U.S., European shares gain after Trump auto-tariff delay
"Europe is on the brink of recession, and auto tariffs would almost certainly push it into recession," said Oliver Pursche, chief market strategist at Bruderman Asset Management in New York. "President Trump announcing that he'd delay auto tariffs by as many as six months is positive, and stocks are reacting appropriately to that." Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he will likely travel to Beijing soon to continue negotiations with Chinese counterparts as the world's two biggest economies try to salvage talks aimed at ending their months-long trade war.
Major U.S. and European stock indexes moved higher after falling earlier. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 122.85 points, or 0.48%, to 25,654.9, the S&P 500 gained 18.54 points, or 0.65%, to 2,852.95 and the Nasdaq Composite added 86.37 points, or 1.12%, to 7,820.86.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.46%. Europe's auto's and suppliers index jumped 2.0%. Italian stocks were still down 0.1% after the country's deputy prime minister said Rome was ready to break EU fiscal rules.
MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.56%. The positive trade developments lifted risk sentiment that had been dampened earlier in the session by weak economic data.
China reported surprisingly weaker growth in retail sales and industrial output for April. In the U.S., retail sales unexpectedly fell in April as households cut back on purchases of motor vehicles and a range of other goods, while other data showed a drop in industrial production last month. "The market gave, up until now, the (Trump) administration the benefit of the doubt in prosecuting the trade war because the economy was strong, and now all of a sudden the data was weaker than expected and I think it is causing a little bit of concern here," David Joy, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Boston, said before news of the auto-tariff delay.
U.S. Treasury yields fell, with the two-year yield hitting its lowest in 15 months as traders raised bets on a Federal Reserve interest rate cut after U.S. retail sales missed expectations. Benchmark 10-year notes last rose 12/32 in price to yield 2.3785%, from 2.419% late on Tuesday.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, rose 0.01%, with the euro up 0.02% to $1.1205. Oil futures rose as worries that rising tensions in the Middle East could hit global supplies overshadowed an unexpected build in U.S. crude inventories.
U.S. crude rose 0.55% to $62.12 per barrel and Brent was last at $71.91, up 0.94% on the day. (Additional reporting by April Joyner in New York and Karin Strohecker in London; Editing by James Dalgleish and Bernadette Baum)
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