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US STOCKS-Wall Street rises on trade optimism; Boeing slides

Published 21/10/2019, 15:26
US STOCKS-Wall Street rises on trade optimism; Boeing slides
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* Boeing extends fall after brokerage downgrades

* Coty jumps on plan to sell professional beauty business

* Chipmakers, tech stocks rise on trade hopes

* Indexes up: Dow 0.06%, S&P 500 0.40%, Nasdaq 0.43%

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By Shreyashi Sanyal

Oct 21 (Reuters) - Wall Street kicked off the week on an

upbeat note on Monday after the United States and China showed

some signs of progress in resolving their trade war, but a fall

in Boeing's shares pressured the blue-chip Dow index.

White House adviser Larry Kudlow said that tariffs scheduled

for December could be withdrawn if trade negotiations go well,

adding to optimism from remarks by President Donald Trump that a

trade deal could be signed by mid-November. U.S. chipmakers with a large exposure to China rose, with

the Philadelphia Semiconductor index .SOX up 0.9%.

Trade-sensitive technology stocks .SPLRCT also gained 0.3%.

"Any kind of positive development on trade just gets people

a little excited, although it is too optimistic to believe that

they will reach a whole trade deal as early as mid-November,"

said Robert Pavlik, chief investment strategist at SlateStone

Wealth LLC in New York.

However, shares of Boeing Co BA.N were on track for their

worst two-day fall in over a decade as multiple brokerages

downgraded the stock after leaked messages from a former test

pilot showed he might have unintentionally misled regulators

about the safety of the grounded 737 MAX jet. Shares of the planemaker slipped 4%, also limiting gains on

the S&P 500 index .SPX .

Wall Street has recovered after a rough start to the month

on signs of progress in trade talks between the world's two

largest economies. The benchmark S&P 500 index ended Friday with

its second weekly gain, while the Nasdaq rose for three weeks in

a row.

At 10:11 a.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was

up 14.99 points, or 0.06%, at 26,785.19, the S&P 500 .SPX was

up 11.88 points, or 0.40%, at 2,998.08 and the Nasdaq Composite

.IXIC was up 34.69 points, or 0.43%, at 8,124.23.

Investors are now gearing up for earnings reports this week

from high-profile companies including Boeing, Microsoft, Procter

& Gamble Co PG.N , United Parcel Service Inc UPS.N and

Caterpillar Inc CAT.N .

Analysts have projected the first earnings contraction since

2016 for S&P 500 companies, but of the 75 companies that have

reported results so far, only 12% have come in below estimates,

according to Refinitiv data.

Halliburton Co HAL.N gained 6%, reversing earlier losses,

after the oilfield services provider detailed plans of further

cost reductions on a conference call. The company reported a 32%

slump in third-quarter profit. Coty Inc COTY.N was the biggest gainer among S&P 500

companies after the cosmetics maker said it was planning to sell

its professional beauty business that houses brands such as

Wella and OPI. Cardinal Health Inc CAH.N , McKesson Corp MCK.N and

AmerisourceBergen Corp ABC.N led declines on the benchmark

index.

The drug distributors, along with Teva Pharmaceutical

Industries TEVA.TA , reached a settlement with two Ohio

counties related to the opioid crisis. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.70-to-1 ratio

on the NYSE and by a 2.21-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P index recorded 32 new 52-week highs and two new

lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 66 new highs and 30 new lows.

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