Finance
Stocks jump on NAFTA hopes
Stocks jumped Monday after the US and Mexico settled a key trade
dispute surrounding a modernized NAFTA. The dollar
fell, and Treasury yields jumped.
Here’s the scoreboard:
Dow Jones industrial
average: 26,055.03 +264.68
(+1.03%)
S&P
500: 2,895.98 +21.29
(+0.74%)
Nasdaq
Composite: 8,017.40 +71.43
(+0.90%)
- The
US and Mexico reached a preliminary trade deal that he
signaled could overhaul NAFTA. Trump claimed a
new agreement would be called the “United States-Mexico Trade
Agreement” and threatened to hit Canada with auto tariffs if it
did not join the two countries. But President Enrique Peña
Nieto pushed back on threats to exclude Canada, which is
expected to begin talks with administration officials right
away. - The Trump administration held a final round of hearings
on proposed 25% tariffs targeting an additional $200 billion
worth of Chinese imports.
Companies testified last week that another tranche of
tariffs, which would almost certainly include
more consumer products than the last, would raise costs and
reduce access to foreign markets. - In efforts to make up for losses from Trump’s tariffs,
the Department of Agriculture said it would pay farmers up to
$4.7 billion in taxpayer funds. Soybean farmers — who
have seen their biggest market compromised in the US-China
trade war — are poised to get a majority of the payout at up to
$3.6 billion,
the Wall Street Journal first reported. - Volkswagen only
recently started taking steps to prevent an incident like its
2015 emissions scandal, a Justice Department-appointed
lawyer said
in a report. Larry
Thompson, assigned to monitor the German carmakerfollowing its civil settlement with the
US, cited a lack of transparency from the
company after
it rigged its cars to cheat emissions tests.
And a look at the upcoming economic calendar:
- Consumer spending numbers and GDP revisions are out in the
US.
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