Wall Street, suspended on Trump announcement on China, ends lower
September 19, 2018
Dow, S&P touch record highs on relief from trade concerns
September 20, 2018By Shreyashi Sanyal
Sept 18 (Reuters) – U.S. stock exchange futures were higher on Tuesday, helped by a rise in oil prices and concessions that analysts said made the latest round of trade tariffs on China less damaging than initially feared.
New York markets fell in late trade on Monday after President Donald Trump announced charges on another $200 billion of Chinese goods.
Collection of these tariffs on the U.S. list will start on Sept. 24 but the rate will only rise to 25 percent by the end of 2018, although Trump also threatened duties on about $267 billion more if China retaliated.
“(The new tariffs) were less tough than expected as it comes in two stages. In other words, Trump is giving China the option,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.
Shares of Apple rose 0.3 percent in early premarket trading, after falling on trade concerns on Monday, although the iPhone was also not among the ‘wide range’ of products Apple said would be hit by the $200 billion round.
The FAANG group of major tech stocks – also including Netflix, Facebook, Google-parent Alphabet, and Amazon – were all slightly higher in premarket trading, after closing lower on Monday.
Shares of energy companies including Exxon Mobil gained after Saudi Arabia said it was comfortable with a higher price range, pushing global crude prices higher.
At 7:08 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were up 61 points, or 0.23 percent. S&P 500 e-minis were up 6 points, or 0.21 percent and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 21.25 points, or 0.29 percent.
The most-traded stock in premarket was chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, up 2.1 percent, while peer Nvidia gained 0.5 percent after brokerage Mizuho raised its share price targets for both. A third chipmaker, Micron, rose 1.1 percent.
Oracle fell 3.6 percent after the business software maker fell short of revenue estimates as it struggled to make inroads in the highly competitive cloud computing market.
Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/article/tech-stocks-take-heart-from-tariff-exceptions-20180918-00423
