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Equity Alert: US indices end higher Tue on hope of US, Iran peace talks

 

MUMBAI--0751 IST--Indices on the Wall Street ended on a strong note Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said Iran wanted to make a peace deal with the US. An official from the White House said a second round of talks were underway with the West Asian nation, CNBC reported. "I think it's close to over, yeah. I mean, I view it as very close to over," Donald Trump told Fox Business Network in an interview. Lebanon and Israel also held their first diplomatic talks in over three decades. 

 

Following the positive sentiment, Brent crude oil futures slipped to around $95 per barrel. The NASDAQ Composite outperformed its peers to close almost 2% higher. All the Magnificent Seven stocks helped the index move higher. All of these stocks, barring Apple, closed 3–4% higher. The NASDAQ gained for the tenth consecutive session. The S&P 500 closed over 1% higher. This week, the index reversed its losses since the 

outbreak of the US-Iran war towards the end of February.

 

Further, a softer-than-expected rise in producer price inflation boosted market sentiment. The US Producer Price Index rose 0.5% on month in March. Economists had estimated this figure to rise 1.1%. On an on-year basis, the inflation index rose 4%, the highest since February 2023. "Producers are still reporting above-normal price increases which will put upward pressure on inflation the consumer is already seeing," Reuters said quoting Christopher Rupkey, chief economist at FWDBONDS. Despite the softer data, the US Federal Reserve is expected to maintain the status quo on interest rates in the near term.

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Tuesday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
S&P 500	6967.38	1.18
NASDAQ Composite	23639.083	1.96
Dow Jones Industrial Average	48535.99	0.66

 

(Ruchira Kagita)

 

US$1 = INR 93.37

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

 

Edited by Vandana Hingorani

 

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