Continuing rally for the second straight session, the US markets ended higher on Monday, as investors shrugged off global trade tensions and their focused shifted on a favorable economic backdrop instead. Traders continued to cheer a round of solid US jobs data released on Friday, which showed the world’s largest economy in better economic health than expected. That helped spur a move back into riskier assets such as stocks, after political upheaval in Italy earlier last week sparked a flight into havens such as bonds. The optimism over the US data also helped overshadow lingering concerns over global trade on Monday. A round of trade talks between the US and China broke down over the weekend with no agreement, indicating a full-on trade war between the world’s two largest economies could be imminent.
Meanwhile, finance ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK issued a rare rebuke to the US at a G-7 meeting on Saturday, expressing their ‘unanimous concern and disappointment’ about President Donald Trump’s decision to place tariffs on metals imports from America’s major allies. Tariffs and trade are also likely to feature highly on the agenda when leaders of the G-7 nations - including the US - hold talks in Canada on Friday and Saturday. On the economic front, the US factory orders fell by 0.8% in April, driven by a decline in commercial aircraft. Besides, there will be no Federal Reserve speeches as the central bank is in its so-called blackout period ahead of its June 12-13 meeting.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 178.48 points or 0.72 percent to 24813.69 and the S&P 500 increased 12.25 points or 0.45% to 2746.87 and the Nasdaq was up by 52.13 points or 0.69 percent to 7606.46.
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