New York (AFP)
Wall Street progressed at the opening on Tuesday, still driven by a wind of hope on the Sino-US trade front.
Its leading index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.33% to 25,984.38 points, around 13H50 GMT.
The Nasdaq, with strong technological color, took 0.62% to 7,902.44 points and the S & P 500 gained 0.52% to 2,893.31 points.
The New York Stock Exchange ended in the green Monday, erasing some of its heavy losses last week after a lull in the trade war between the United States and China, the world's two largest economies: the Dow Jones had taken 1.05% and the Nasdaq had risen by 1.32%.
Donald Trump was confident Monday, since the G7 summit in Biarritz on the continuation of the dialogue between Washington and Beijing.
The tenant of the White House assured that China had expressed its willingness to return to the table of negotiations on bilateral trade.
For his part, China's chief negotiator, Liu He, said his country was ready to "calmly resolve the problem through consultations and cooperation." A telephone exchange between Chinese and Americans has not been confirmed.
"The market continues to be reassured by the US President's less aggressive tone on trade negotiations with China," said Patrick O'Hare of Briefing.
However, market players remained on their guard, the New York quotation has been particularly volatile since the beginning of the month.
Sign of the feverish markets, the interest rate on US 10-year debt was down sharply, to 1.51%, and fell below the 2-year rate (1.54%).
This phenomenon, known as "inversion of the yield curve", has occurred several times in recent weeks. It is often seen as an indicator of a future recession.
On the stock front, Johnson & Johnson rose 2.5%. The group was sentenced Monday to pay $ 572 million to Oklahoma for its responsibility for the opiate crisis, a much lower figure than the plaintiff state had requested.
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