Stocks to Watch Monday: Amazon, Tesla, Apple
↗️Amazon (AMZN); Apple (AAPL); Tesla (TSLA): The biggest U.S. tech stocks surged in premarket trade after the White House and China agreed to substantial tariff cuts. Among them, Amazon sells many Chinese-made products on its platform; Apple does much of its assembly in China; and the country is an important market for Tesla.
↗️ A.P. Moeller-Maersk (DK:MAERSK.B); Hapag-Lloyd (XE:HLAG): News of lower trade barriers between the world's two biggest economies lifted shares of global shipping companies. Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd stocks both rose more than 10% in Europe.
↗️ Glencore (UK:GLEN): Lower tariffs and a rosier U.S.-China trade outlooked helped global mining stocks. Glencore shares rose more than 5% in London.
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