By Staff Reporters
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U.S. stocks ended the day higher, adding to last week’s rally, which was the biggest advance since June. The three major stock averages climbed for the second straight trading day, but this rally will face a big test in the upcoming earnings season. Left out in the cold were Chinese tech stocks like Alibaba, which plunged as markets reacted (rather negatively) to China’s President Xi Jinping securing an unprecedented third term and packing the country’s leadership with loyalists. Treasury yields were mixed, as longer-term rates reversed to the upside and seemingly weighed on growth sectors. The markets awaited this week’s flood of earnings reports amid a day light in equity news, headlined by Tesla’s decision to cut prices for some of its vehicles in China. Political developments out of China and the U.K. were also in focus, along with a flood of Manufacturing and Services PMIs in the U.S. and abroad, which mostly showed a slowdown in activity. The U.S. dollar was unchanged, while crude oil and gold prices edged lower. Asian stocks finished mixed with mainland Chinese and Hong Kong equities tumbling, while Europe ended higher despite some |
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