ET Market Watch: Trump pauses tariffs, markets boom! Nifty at 25,000; Sensex surges 455 points
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Hi, you're listening to ET Markets Radio, I am your host Neha V Mahajan. Welcome to a fresh episode of ET Market Watch -- where we bring you the latest news from the world of stock markets every single day. Let's get to it:Markets hit new milestones! After so long -- Nifty closed above 25,000 level while the Sensex ended the day up 455 points at 82,176 – thanks to a solid rally in auto, IT, and defence stocks.What triggered the rally?US President Donald Trump paused the 50% tariffs on the EU, easing global trade tensions. That move sent auto stocks soaring — both globally and on Dalal Street.Top gainersBEML surged 11.5%, Shilpa Medicare jumped 13%, and Lloyds Enterprises gained over 11%. In the Nifty 50 pack, Bajaj Auto, JSW Steel, and M&M led the charge, while Kotak Bank and UltraTech Cement fell.Sectoral viewEvery major sector ended in the green! Nifty Auto rose 1.14%, IT was up 1.03%, Metal rose 1% and FMCG ended 0.99% higher.Rupee watch:The rupee strengthened to 85.08/USD, after touching a 2-week high of 84.79. Gains were capped as the dollar index rebounded.Global cues: MIXEDJapan's Nikkei rallied 1%STOXX 600 in Europe up 1%But Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 1.4%Crude check:Oil prices edged up as tariff fears eased:Brent at $65.17, up 0.6% while US WTI ended at $61.86, up 0.5%. The extension of trade talks eased fears of a slowdown in fuel demand.
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Time of India
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China, Hong Kong stocks fall as initial Sino-US trade optimism wanes
Stocks in China and Hong Kong traded lower on Thursday, led by declines in the tech sector, as markets struggled to sustain the positive momentum from the Sino-U.S. trade talks that lacked concrete details. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Stocks in China and Hong Kong traded lower on Thursday, led by declines in the tech sector, as markets struggled to sustain the positive momentum from the Sino-U.S. trade talks that lacked concrete blue-chip CSI 300 Index closed about 0.1% lower after wavering through the day, slipping from the three-week high touched on Kong's Hang Seng index lost 1.4% at close to pull back from the nearly three-month high hit in the previous shares led losses in onshore and offshore markets. The CSI Semiconductor Index shed 1.5%, while the Hang Seng Tech Index dropped 2.2%.Among major losers, chipmaker SMIC fell 2% to a one-week low. Alibaba weakened 3.2% and EV-maker Xpeng slid 6.7%.The CSI Rare Earth Index closed flat after slipping nearly 1% in the morning session and continued to hover near its seven-month high.A trade truce between the world's two biggest economies was back on track, U.S President Donald Trump said, a day after negotiators from Washington and Beijing agreed on a framework to ease bilateral retaliatory the agreement, Beijing will lift export curbs on rare earth minerals and the U.S. will restore Chinese students' access to its universities, Trump said on Truth the terms remain subject to final approvals, with details notably absent. The 55% tariffs on Chinese imports will also stay, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said."We still don't know if what Trump says will actually happen. It's disappointing that the tariffs rates were not dialled down at all and tech curbs on China were not even mentioned," said Jason Chan, senior investment strategist at Bank of East Asia, Hong talks left key issues, like chip exports, unaddressed, leaving room for conflicts in the future, and no one knows for how long the current truce will last, he markets have been struggling to recover from trade shocks for the past two months after Trump announced sweeping tariffs on April 2 that threatened the global trade CSI 300 Index has barely eked out any gains since then, while the Hang Seng Index has climbed 3.5%, but the two are underperforming the nearly 10% bounce in the MSCI World Index .The market is less sensitive to trade talks and investors are shifting focus to economic fundamentals, Wang Zhuo, partner at Zhuozhu Investment, said."The key for China now is to bolster manufacturers' confidence and break the deflationary trend."


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