New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange rose to the opening on Tuesday, encouraged by positive signals in trade talks between the United States and China.

The leading index of New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, took 0.23% to 27,011.35 points, 14:10 GMT.

The Nasdaq, with strong technological color, rose by 0.31% to 8,137.42 points, and the S & P 500 broad index by 0.36% to 3,002.57 points.

Wall Street ended near equilibrium Monday, hesitating to engage between slightly better than expected US indicators and disappointing statistics on activity in the euro zone: the Dow Jones had appreciated 0.06% while the Nasdaq had yielded 0.06%.

Several brokers in the agricultural market have since made significant orders for soy from Chinese buyers, a gesture of goodwill from Beijing that has imposed for over a year very high tariffs on oilseeds American.

- BlackBerry fall -

US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin also confirmed Monday night in an interview on Fox News that he will, alongside US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, resume discussions with their Chinese counterparts in early October.

"The president has been very clear that if we can reach the right agreement, he wants this agreement," he said. "If we do not reach a satisfactory agreement, he will be happy to continue to apply tariffs."

"US confirmation of high-level talks (...) appears to provide market support, even if concerns about global growth persist" after fragile figures from the eurozone and Japan ", pointed out analysts Charles Schwab.

Apple, strongly present in China, rose 1.44%.

In the bond market, the 10-year US debt rate was 1.668%, down from Monday's close (1.727%).

BlackBerry shares listed in New York fell 17.51%. the Canadian group reported disappointing quarterly sales and lower expectations.

Alphabet rose 0.76% while a judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has given reason to Google's parent company, saying that the "right to be forgotten" of European Internet users was limited to the EU and had no global reach for search engines.

Starbucks (+ 0.36%) also won on Tuesday a first victory in this instance in its battle against the EU that wanted him to repay undue tax benefits in the Netherlands.

Boeing was grappling with 0.02%. More than six months after the grounding of his 737 MAX aircraft following two accidents that left 346 dead, there is still no date for his return to the sky, said Monday the agency's federal Aviation (FAA), the US Air Regulator.

Facebook, which announced Monday night to have bought a start-up seeking to make it possible to control computers or other devices directly using the brain, and no longer a mouse or a movement of a finger, yielded 0.12%.

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