Finance
Stocks rise after the US, Mexico, and Canada reach new NAFTA agreement
Stocks were mostly higher Monday, paring some earlier gains,
after the US reached a trade deal with Mexico and Canada. The
dollar and Treasury yields jumped.
Here’s the scoreboard:
Dow Jones industrial
average:
26,658.47
+200.16 (+0.76%)
S&P
500: 2,920.68 +6.70 (+0.23%)
Nasdaq
Composite:
8,037.30
−9.05 (-0.11%)
- NAFTA lives on through
the US-Mexico-Canada
Agreement. Officials reached a
breakthrough on trade in 11th-hour negotiations Sunday night,
calming fears the trilateral deal could be scrapped. Automaker
shares, including GM
(+1.3%) and Ford
(+1%), rose following the news. -
Negotiations between Washington and Beijing
remain deadlocked. After imposing another
round of tariffs on each other last month and cancelled
high-level trade talks, Trump signaled his administration won’t
be heading back to the negotiating table anytime soon. “Can’t
talk now, because they’re not ready,” he said of Beijing during
trade remarks at the White House.
General Electric ousted
CEO John
Flanneryafter just over a year at the top of
the company. The surprise move comes just over
two months after the company reported profit from
its power business dropped 58% in the second
quarter. Lawrence Culp, a GE board member and
the former CEO of Danaher Corporation, is set to take his
place.
And a look at the upcoming economic calendar:
- Automakers release September sales numbers.
- Employment data are out in the US and Canada.
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