US STOCKS-Tech gains keep Wall Street afloat

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* Trump says "not yet ready" to make a deal with China
* Activision Blizzard gains after Goldman upgrade
* Total System gains on buyout deal
* Bond yields hit lowest level since 2017; bank stocks fall
* Indexes up: Dow 0.19%, S&P 0.16%, Nasdaq 0.37%

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By Amy Caren Daniel
May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks eked out gains on Tuesday,
helped by technology stocks, but the likelihood of a protracted
trade war between the United States and China kept investors on
the sidelines.
Trump on Monday said he was "not yet ready" to make a deal
with China but he expected one in the future. The back-and-forth
between the two sides has sparked worries that the trade war
would lead to a global economic slowdown.
"What you're seeing is kind of an over-sold bounce, we'll
see over the course of the day if that holds," said Michael
Antonelli, market strategist at Robert W. Baird in Milwaukee
"Last week wasn't great, and we start this week with nothing
fresh to trade off of and there is only so much pricing of
tariff fears you can put in markets before you exhaust that as a
downside catalyst."
The benchmark S&P 500 index .SPX as of Friday's close was
about 4% away from its record high hit on May 1, while the
blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial index .DJI posted its fifth
straight week of decline.
Trade uncertainty has pushed investors towards safe-haven
assets, which resulted in benchmark U.S. Treasury yields
US10YT=RR dropping to its lowest level since October 2017.
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The rate-sensitive banking sector .SPXBK dropped 0.35%,
while the broader financial sector .SPSY fell 0.15% and
weighed on the S&P.
The technology sector .SPLRCT , which is among the worst
performing S&P sectors this month, rose 0.54%, helped by a 6.3%
jump in Total System Services Inc TSS.N .
Global Payments Inc GPN.N said it would buy the payment
technology company for about $21.5 billion in stock. Its shares
declined 1.5%. Markets were also helped by gains in marquee stocks,
including Facebook Inc FB.O , Amazon.com AMZN.O , Netflix
NFLX.O and Microsoft Corp MSFT.O , which rose about 1% each.
At 11:05 a.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was
up 49.42 points, or 0.19%, at 25,635.11, the S&P 500 .SPX was
up 4.66 points, or 0.16%, at 2,830.72 and the Nasdaq Composite
.IXIC was up 27.94 points, or 0.37%, at 7,664.94.
Among others, Activision Blizzard Inc ATVI.O rose 4.2%
after Goldman Sachs upgraded its stock to "buy" and said the
videogame publisher would benefit from its recent game releases.
Advanced Micro Devices AMD.O jumped 8% and also helped
lift the sector, after the chipmaker launched new computing and
graphics products on Sunday. Rival Intel Corp INTC.O fell
2.3%.
Gilead Sciences GILD.O fell 2.5% after Goldman Sachs
downgraded its shares to "sell" from "neutral", saying the
drugmaker has very limited mid-to-late stage pipelines.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.05-to-1 ratio
on the NYSE. Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a
1.08-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded 16 new 52-week highs and 10 new lows,
while the Nasdaq recorded 41 new highs and 70 new lows.