US markets end sharply higher on Tuesday

25 Mar 2020 Evaluate

The US markets ended sharply higher on Tuesday, partly offsetting the significant weakness seen in recent sessions, amid indications Democrats and Republicans are closing in on an agreement on a massive fiscal stimulus bill. After a meeting with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and incoming White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said negotiations were on the two-yard line. Meanwhile, Schumer indicated Democrats are still pushing for increased oversight of a proposed $500 billion bailout fund to help industries that are struggling amid the coronavirus outbreak. Besides, Traders were also reacting to President Donald Trump's comments suggesting the coronavirus-related shutdown of much of the country could end sooner than many anticipated. Trump said that he would love to see the country open by Easter, which is on April 12.

On the economic data front, after reporting a jump in US new home sales in the previous month, the Commerce Department released a report showing home sales pulled back sharply in the month of February. The Commerce Department said new home sales tumbled by 4.4 percent to an annual rate of 765,000 in February after spiking by 10.5 percent to an upwardly revised rate of 800,000 in January. With the upward revision, the annual rate of new home sales in January was the highest since reaching 842,000 in May of 2007. Street had expected new home sales to slump by 1.8 percent to a rate of 750,000 from the 764,000 originally reported for the previous month. The bigger than expected decrease was partly due to a substantial pullback in new home sales in the West, which plunged by 17.2 percent in February after soaring by 28.8 percent in January.

Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 2,112.98 points or 11.37 percent to 20,704.91, Nasdaq rose 557.18 points or 8.12 percent to 7,417.86 and S&P 500 was up by 209.93 points or 9.38 percent to 2,447.33.

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