in Addition, announced the minister of finance, Steven Mnuchin that he is likely to travel to Beijing to resume trade negotiations with China.

Among the winners on Wall Street were billtillverkarna Ford and General Motors, whose shares rose 1.2% and 0.9%. The best sector was telcos. The sector as a whole rose 1.9 per cent.

All the leading indexes rose: the Dow Jones industrial index by 0.5 percent, the Nasdaq’s kompositindex by 1.1 per cent and the S&P 500 by 0.6 per cent.