Economics
Stocks Rise After Trump Sticks to Script on China: Markets Wrap
- S&P 500 registers second straight monthly advance; Gold gains
- Crude rallies late, posts biggest monthly advance on record
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Relentless investor optimism over prospects for an economic recovery continued to overwhelm everything else in markets, pushing stocks higher on a day Donald Trump escalated his war of words with China.
While the president blasted the Communist country for its actions on the pandemic and in Hong Kong, traders took some solace in the absence of new draconian economic restrictions.