Stocks notch strong weekly gain, US yields slip as markets eye Trump policies
Wall Street stocks finish higher
Euro hits two-year low on poor data, higher gas prices
Gold rises above the $2,700
Bitcoin on verge of $100,000 threshold
Updates prices throughout with U.S. market close, adds oil and gold settlement
By Chibuike Oguh
NEW YORK, Nov 22 (Reuters) -Global stocks registereda strong weekly gain on Friday while U.S. Treasury yieldsslipped as markets eyed President-elect Donald Trump's likely policies and their impact on the U.S. economy, even as bitcoin traded near the $100,000 threshold.
Traders are bracing for Trump's agenda after he takes office in January, which is expected to include tariffs, tax cuts and deregulation. Trump has been nominating senior officials in his administration, and markets are awaiting his pick for Treasury secretary.
All three Wall Street indexes finished higher and each notched a weekly gain. Industrials, consumerdiscretionary, financials and consumer staples drove gains while communication services, utilities and technology equities were the biggest losers.
Nvidia NVDA.O, the world's most valuable company, ended down 3.2% after the artificial intelligence chipmaker reported strong quarterly results but issued lacklustre sales forecasts.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 0.97% to 44,296.51, the S&P 500 .SPX rose 0.35% to 5,969.34 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC rose 0.16% to 19,003.65.
Europe's Stoxx 600 .STOXX share index ended the week 1% higher, snapping four straight weeks of losses. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS rose 0.33%to 854.22 and gained about 1.4% for the week.
"The earnings of Nvidia were really solid and the market traded off a little bit but I don't think it was a major event that it could have been," said Mark Malek, chief investment officer at SiebertNXT in New York. "So we put that behind us and when we look at what else might be driving the market this week ... People are starting to think about what has happened to the market since Trump was elected and some of the appointments he's been making."
The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes US10YT=RR fell 1.4 basis points to 4.418%, as markets reassess future rate cuts from the Federal Reserve given expectations that some of Trump's policies could be inflationary. The market is now pricing in a 53% probability the Fed will cut rates by 25 basis points in December.
Bets that Trump's administration will take a lighter-touch approach to regulation also propelled bitcoin BTC= to the brink of $100,000 for the first time. The world's largest cryptocurrency gained 1.33% to $99,384.00. Ethereum ETH= declined 1.59% to $3,295.40.
The euro fell to a two-year low while the dollar gained after gauges of business activity were released in each region. A gauge of the U.S. manufacturing sector compiled byS&P Global increased to 55.3 this month, the highest level since April 2022. A similar gauge for the euro zonesank to a 10-month low of 48.1 in November.
The dollar index =USD, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, rose 0.43%to 107.52,with the euro EUR= down 0.56%at $1.0414 after falling to $1.0333, its lowest since Nov. 30, 2022.
Oil prices climbed about 1%, settling at a two-week high,driven by the intensifying Russia-Ukraine conflict. Brent LCOc1 futures rose 1.3% to settle at $75.17 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 rose 1.6% to settle at $71.24.
Gold prices breached the $2,700 threshold for the first time in two weeks, on track for their biggest weekly gain in over a year. Spot gold XAU= rose 1.37% to $2,706.39 an ounce. U.S. gold futures GCcv1 settled 1.4% higher at $2,712.20.
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Reporting by Chibuike Oguh in New York; Additional reporting by Ankur Banerjee. Editing by Christina Fincher, Mark Potter and Deepa Babington
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