New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange rose to the opening on Monday and resumed its race to record, stimulated by a renewed optimism on trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing and a series of buyouts of large companies.

Around 15:10 GMT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the flagship index of Wall Street, rose 0.46% to 28,003.36 points.

The Nasdaq, with strong technological coloration, took 0.96%, to 8,602.08 points.

The broad S & P 500 index was up 0.59% at 3,128.50 points.

Like the Nasdaq, the S & P 500 was evolving to a new level during the session, a performance immediately hailed by a tweet from US President Donald Trump: "Another record in the stock market.

Affected by mixed messages on the trade front, major Wall Street indices fell slightly last week, with the Dow Jones down 0.46%, the Nasdaq 0.25%, and the S & P 500 0.32% %.

But Monday, the clues benefited from "comments made Saturday by the US National Security Advisor, Robert O'Brien, who suggested that a trade agreement + phase 1+ between the United States and China could be effective. 'here the end of the year,' said Lillian Currens of Schaeffer's Investment Research.

Beijing has also pledged to increase sanctions against Chinese companies that are guilty of intellectual property theft.

This is enough to revive the hope of at least a partial agreement between the first two world economic powers in the medium term.

As Thanksgiving begins this week, which will result in a holiday in the United States on Thursday and a shortened session on Friday, the New York Square was also animated by the announcement of several large-scale operations.

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Charles Schwab (-0.41%), one of the pioneers of online brokerage, announced the purchase of his rival TD Ameritrade (+ 3.89%) for some 26 billion dollars.

The world's number one luxury LVMH will cheer the famous jeweler Tiffany (+ 5.89%) for $ 16.2 billion, a record acquisition for Bernard Arnault's group which will strengthen in the United States and add a jewel of size to his wallet.

EBay's online trading platform (+ 1.31%) announced that it would sell the StubHub sports tickets and events and shows site to Viagogo, another online ticket retailer, for 4.05 billions of dollars in cash.

The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced on Sunday that it wanted to buy the US pharmaceutical company Medecines Co (+ 22.44%) for some $ 9.7 billion to strengthen its portfolio of heart treatments.

In the bond market, the 10-year US debt rate was 1.759% versus 1.771% at closing on Friday.

Among the other values ​​of the day, Tesla rose 2.51% while his boss, Elon Musk, said he has already recorded nearly 150,000 pre-orders for his future futuristic electric pickup.

Disney was up 0.47% while Frozen 2 "won the North American box office, pocketing $ 127 million in revenue for its first weekend in North American theaters, according to news reports. provisional figures released Sunday by the specialized company Exhibitor Relations.

General Electric (+ 2.38%) announced the arrival at the beginning of 2020 as chief financial officer of Carolina Dybeck Happe, currently at the logistics group Moller-Maersk.

Uber, which had its license suspended by London because of loopholes on its computer system allowing thousands of unlicensed drivers to take charge of passengers fraudulently, declined by 0.63%. Its main competitor Lyft gained 3.29%.

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