Finance
Stocks hit all-time highs as tech rallies
Strong economic data and optimism for easing global trade
tensions powered the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite to touch
record highs for a fourth straight session Wednesday.
The dollar fell,
and Treasury yields inched higher.
Here’s the scoreboard:
Dow Jones industrial
average: 26,125.31 +61.29
(+0.24%)
S&P
500: 2,915.51 +17.99 (+0.62%)
Nasdaq
Composite: 8,109.69 +79.65
(+0.99%)
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Canadian officials said NAFTA talks
could wrap up by Friday. Canadian Foreign
Minister Chrystia Freeland met with US Trade Representative
Robert Lighthizer for a second session of negotiations, days
after President Donald Trump
threatened to terminate the 24-year-old trade pact and to
hit Canada with auto tariffs. - The US economy expanded
slightly faster than initially thought in the second
quarter, bringing the growth rate to a four-year
peak. Gross domestic product grew at 4.2% last
quarter, the fastest pace since 2014 and up 0.1 percentage
points from the advance estimate, according to revisions by the
Commerce Department. - US
corporate profits jumped to a six-year high last
quarter. Thanks to a boost from tax cuts and a humming
economy, a broad measure of corporate profits by the
Commerce Department rose 16.1% in the second quarter from a
year before. - OPEC will meet to discuss US sanctions against
Iran. The cartel is planning to discuss whether
producers can make up for an anticipated sharp drop in global
oil supply come November, when the US enacts sanctions on
Iranian barrels, Reuters
reports.
And a look at the upcoming economic calendar:
- Consumer spending numbers are out in the US.
- Canada reports monthly GDP.
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