Overview
- Wall Street finished higher Thursday, with the Dow up 0.31%, the S&P 500 up 0.58% and the Nasdaq up 0.89%, after confirmation of an upcoming Trump–Xi meeting revived trade optimism.
- U.S. 10‑year Treasury yields hovered near 4% as traders awaited the September CPI report postponed by the federal shutdown.
- Paris stocks dipped early Friday as the CAC 40 fell about 0.3%, with sentiment pressured by a sharper contraction in France’s flash composite PMI to 46.8.
- Oil prices jumped more than 5% after new U.S. sanctions on Russia’s Rosneft and Lukoil, lifting energy shares such as TotalEnergies by about 2%.
- Earnings remained the main driver: Netflix’s profit undershot expectations near $2.5 billion on a Brazil tax dispute and its shares slid about 10%, while Tesla’s net income dropped 37% but the stock rebounded to close up 2.3%.