(Bloomberg) -- U.S. indexes advanced following economic data on the labor market and the first official meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as the Group of 20 leaders meet in Hamburg.
The S&P 500 added 0.3 percent to 2,416 at 9:45 a.m. in New York, after the underlying index closed at a six-week low on Thursday, when real estate stocks had their biggest year-to-date decline. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 38 points to 21,360.
- Tech shares up 1% on gains in AMD, Lam Research and Applied Materials
- Staples, telecom and utility shares little changed
- 10-year Treasury yield up 2 bps
- VIX down to 11.8
- Volume in S&P 500 about 20% below 30-day average at this time
- Energy stocks down 0.6% for worst decline in the market
- Oil fell in New York and headed for a weekly loss, as a decline in U.S. crude stockpiles failed to convince investors that global markets are re-balancing.
- POLITICS:
- Hackers working for a foreign government recently breached at least a dozen U.S. power plants, including the Wolf Creek nuclear facility in Kansas, according to current and former U.S. officials'
- President Donald Trump said today that Mexico should “absolutely” pay for his proposed border wall as he sat down with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg
- Trump and Putin shook hands at the start of the summit, and their foreign-policy chiefs -- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov -- met for an hour on the sidelines of the summit today. Trump and Putin are scheduled to sit down at 3:45 p.m. local time in Hamburg
- ECONOMY:
- U.S. hiring picked up in June while wage gains disappointed yet again, a mix that may continue to be a puzzle for the economy and policy makers, Labor Department figures showed Friday
- Payrolls rose 222k (est. 178k); April-May revisions added 47k jobs
- Unemployment rate, derived from a separate survey of households, rose to 4.4% (est. 4.3%) from 16-year low of 4.3%
- Average hourly earnings rose by 0.2% m/m (est. 0.3% rise); up 2.5% y/y (est. 2.6%)
- EARNINGS: none
- Goldman Sees Equity Bull Market Continuing, Yet Trade War Risk
- Russia Is Weakest Player in G-20 Stock Markets This Year: Chart
- Balanced Investors Face Amplified Negative Impact of Real Rates
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To contact the reporter on this story: Oliver Renick in New York at orenick2@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Chris Nagi at chrisnagi@bloomberg.net, Steven Fromm
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