NEW YORK, March 5 - Treasuries yields rose on Monday afternoon as the U.S. stock market recovered and fears
of a trade war eased after senior Republicans urged President Donald Trump to reconsider his threat to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.
Not exact matches
The U.S. dollar slipped to a five - week low as optimism the US and China are set to begin negotiations on
trade helped
ease fears
of a
trade war.
Stock markets have since risen as Chinese President Xi Jinping has
eased investor fears
of a
trade war by promising to cut import restrictions.
A report Monday said that Beijing and Washington had begun to quietly negotiate U.S. access to Chinese markets, putting concerns
of a full - blown
trade war at
ease.
Zhang Zhexin, a research fellow at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, was more upbeat, saying that now that Trump had got at least some
of the answers he wanted from Xi,
trade war tensions should
ease.
The fears that President Donald Trump's threats
of tariffs would plunge the globe into a devastating
trade war is
easing quite a bit.
The rally is also helped by the strong opposition against Trump's tariff plans, which
eased fears
of an outright
trade war between the US and its largest partners.
As
trade war fears
eased somewhat, the main stock indices are still
trading above their recent lows, but should
trading heat up again, the distance from the lows could be erased in a couple
of sessions, so bulls are not out
of the woods yet, despite the still oversold conditions after the deep correction.
Even though investors seemed to lose momentum toward the end
of the session on Monday, positive comments from Chinese officials succeeded in
easing fears about a potential
trade war, and that helped refocus most market participants on the impending start to earnings season.
Markets started out on a positive note on the first day
of the fund - flows week as the
trade war fears between the U.S. and China
eased.
The Dow witnessed another triple - digit upside day (+428.90) on Tuesday after President Xi announced that Beijing plans to give foreign companies greater access to the financial and manufacturing sectors,
easing some
of the
trade war rhetoric.