New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange finished higher on Thursday and took the Nasdaq and S & P 500 indexes to new highs, with investors betting on the imminent formalization of a trade deal between Washington and Beijing.

Its flagship index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, rose 0.79% to 28,132.05 points.

The Nasdaq, with strong technological color, appreciated by 0.73% to 8,717.32 points and the S & P 500 index widened by 0.86% to 3,168.57 points.

The clues took advantage early in the session of a tweet by US President Donald Trump stating that Washington and Beijing were about to reach a trade deal.

After falling back a little bit, they picked up momentum in the second part of the meeting when Bloomberg said the US and Chinese negotiators had reached a trade deal that was only to be approved by the US. tenant of the White House.

"The most important element is that we will not have new import taxes on Sunday and that, icing on the cake, some taxes already in place could apparently be lowered," said Karl. Haeling of LBBW.

Washington and Beijing have been fighting for almost two years, resulting in the mutual imposition of additional tariffs. The US administration had warned that it could implement Sunday a new salvo of tariffs of 10% of about 160 billion dollars of Chinese goods that had not yet been overtaxed.

Wall Street indexes, however, did not fully take off "because we have already been told twice that a big deal was reached before it was imploded just days later," said Haeling.

It will be important in this regard to see the details of the compromise, "not so much to estimate the economic benefits but to see what were the political balance that could lead," he said.

"In function, we may be able to estimate the probability that the agreement will be broken or not and the probability that Donald Trump decides or not in 30, 60 or 90 days to impose new taxes", added the specialist .

In the bond market, the 10-year US debt rate was up, standing at 21:20 GMT to 1.894% against 1.791% Wednesday at the close.

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