Stocks gain, oil falls 6%; big tech-related earnings on tap this week
US stocks end higher, with earnings, jobs report this week
Crude oil settles 6% lower
Yen hits three-month low after election
Updates to 4:45 p.m. ET
By Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK, Oct 28 (Reuters) -Global stock indexes rose on Monday as investors awaited earnings reports this week from several of the biggest U.S. tech-related companies, while oil prices dropped 6% afterIsrael's retaliatory strike against Iran at the weekend bypassed oil and nuclear facilities.
The Japanese yen fell toa three-month low against the dollar followingan election in Japan thrust the country into political turmoil.
U.S. earnings season is in full swing, with a long list of names due to report this week including five of the biggest U.S. companies: Google parent Alphabet GOOGL.O, Microsoft MSFT.O, Facebook owner Meta Platforms META.O, Apple AAPL.O and Amazon.com AMZN.O.
Theweek also brings the U.S. jobs report for October on Friday, while investors are keeping a close eye on political news with the U.S. presidential election just over a week away.
Employers are expected to have added 123,000 jobs during October, while the unemployment rate is likely to have stayed steady at 4.1%, according to economists polled by Reuters. USNFAR=ECI, USUNR=ECI
The election for U.S. president is expected to be close. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, was leading Republican Donald Trump nationally by a marginal 46% to 43%, a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed. Election Day in the U.S. is Nov. 5.
Benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yields hit a three-month high ahead of this week's data and the election. They were US10YT=RR last up 4.4 basis points at 4.274% in afternoon U.S. trading.
"It's the calm before the storm," said Subadra Rajappa, head of U.S. rates strategy at Societe Generale in New York. "A lot of investors are a little bit more cautious heading into the elections."
Oil pricestumbled as worries about a wider Middle East war eased. Brent futures LCOc1 settled at $71.42 a barrel, down $4.63 or 6.09%. WTI U.S. crude futures CLc1 settled at $67.38, down $4.40 or 6.13%.
Energyshares eased along with oil prices, with theS&P 500 energy sector .SPNY ending down0.7%, while the three major U.S. stock indexes closed higher.
TheDow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 273.17 points, or 0.65%, to 42,387.57, the S&P 500 .SPX rose 15.40 points, or 0.27%, to 5,823.52 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC rose 48.58 points, or 0.26%, to 18,567.19.
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group DJT.O, parent company of Trump's Truth Social platform, surged 21.6% on Monday, extending a recent rally.
MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS rose 2.44 points, or 0.29%, to 847.93. The STOXX 600 .STOXX index rose 0.41%.
The yen remained under pressure as the election loss by Japan's ruling coalition raises political and monetary policy uncertainty.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost its parliamentary majority. The party, with junior coalition partner Komeito, won 215 lower-house seats in Sunday's election, public broadcaster NHK reported, well short of the 233 needed for a majority.
Against the yen, the dollar rose by as much as 1% to a high of 153.88, the yen's weakest level JPY=EBS since late July. The dollar was last up 0.64% at 153.28.
Also, the dollar index =USD, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, fell 0.08% to 104.30, and the euro EUR= was up 0.19% at $1.0813.
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Additional reporting by Amanda Cooper in London and Karen Brettell in New York; Editing by Christopher Cushing, Sonali Paul, Gareth Jones, Marguerita Choy, Leslie Adler and David Gregorio
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