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Wall Street equity indexes close higher after US-China tariff truce May 13 2025

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Today’s Key Market Moves

  • Wall Street soars, with the Dow rising 2.8%, the S&P 500 up 3.3% and the Nasdaq leaping 4.4%. The latter hit their highest since early March, all three close above their 200-day moving averages.
  • Among the key global equity index gains – Hang Seng and Hang Seng tech up 3% and 5%, respectively; India up nearly 4%; Japan and MSCI Asia ex-Japan up 2%.
  • U.S. Treasury yields shoot higher, by as much as 13 bps at the short end. The 2-year yield climbs back above 4.00%.
  • Gold slides nearly 3%.
  • The dollar index leaps 1.4%, its best day since the U.S. election last November and one of its best in recent years. Dollar/yen soars 2%.

Today’s key reads

 

Tariff truce a market ‘game changer’

Fed tests limits of ‘wait and see’

 

What could move markets tomorrow?

  • UK employment (March)
  • BoE Governor Andrew Bailey, chief economist Huw Pill speak at separate events
  • Germany ZEW business sentiment (May)
  • U.S. CPI inflation (April)

 

 

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