Wall Street closes higher at Trade Deal Hopes, Surge in Semis by Investing.com
© Reuters. Investing.com – S & P 500 closed higher on Wednesday when optimism on trading and growing tension objects helped counteract falling energy stocks.
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The trade negotiations between the United States and China are on the "endgame scene", says Myron Brilliant, executive vice president for international affairs at the US Chamber of Commerce. "Ninety percent of the deal is finished, but the last 1[ads1]0% is the hardest part, it's the hardest part, and it will require balance on both sides."
The cautiously optimistic comments come as China's Vice President Liu He met with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and State Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday, resuming talks that took place in Beijing a week ago.
Despite optimism about trade in the US and China, commercial industrial areas fought to close
Raytheon (NYSE 🙂 fell 4.5%, Northrop Grumman (NYSE 🙂 fell 2.4 %, and Lockheed Martin [1965901010]] (NYSE 🙂 fell 1.92%.
Beyond trade, falling energy laws kept a lid on gains in the broad market as oil prices fell after an unexpected supply of supplies.
But an increase in tech stocks attempted sentiment on risk following an increase in chip stocks, led b and Advanced Advanced Devices (NASDAQ :), up 8.5%.
Nomura spoke up the prospect of higher profits for AMD expecting the weakness of the chip market to plunge into the first quarter thanks to a better economic background in China, which accounts for a large part of worldwide chip spending.
Apple (NASDAQ 🙂 closed 0.7% higher across technology, despite Nomura celebrating cold water on the expectation that the company's service revenue would offset lower iPhone sales rather than later. 19659004] App Store growth slowed to 15% in March quarter from 18% in the December quarter, according to the Sensor Tower, Nomura said. The price decline in iPhones does little to lift the demand for the company's flagship smartphones during the continued softness of the China smartphone market, the bank added.
In the consumer discretion, GameStop (NYSE 🙂 played in trouble, falling 4.7% after the full-year revenue guidance was brief of Wall Street consensus estimates.
Morgan Stanley marked the downturn in older games as a headwind on GameStop's sales and usage margin.
"In fact, there seems to be an increasing gap between new and used trends, and we are concerned that fewer purchases also damaged other parts of the business," Morgan Stanley (NYSE 🙂 said. 19659004] Economic data did little to spur rally in stocks that the private sector created than expected, and the deficit economists' forecasts, pointing to further signs of economic downturn.
Top S & P 500 Gainers and Losers Today: [19659004] Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ :), Nielsen Holdings (NYSE 🙂 and Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ 🙂 were among the best S&P 500 winners for the session.
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