Wall St charges ahead as retail sales soothe slowdown fears
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Jobless claims at one-month low; retail sales surge in July
Cisco gains after forecasting upbeat Q1 revenue, cutting 7% jobs
Nike rises as Ackman's Pershing Square reveals new stakes
Walmart advances after raising FY profit forecast
Indexes up: Dow 1.15%, S&P 500 1.36%, Nasdaq 2.0%
Updated at 11:38 a.m. ET/1538 GMT
By Shubham Batra and Shashwat Chauhan
Aug 15 (Reuters) -Wall Street's main indexes jumped onThursday, with the Nasdaq rising 2% after U.S. retailsales data for July indicated resilient consumer spending, allaying fears of an imminent recession in the world's largest economy.
Tesla TSLA.O was the top gainer among megacap and growth stocks, leading the pack with a 6.1% advance.
Nine of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors were trading higher, with Consumer Discretionary .SPLRCD and Technology .SPLRCT rising 3% and 2.1%, respectively.
Retail sales increased 1.0% last month after a downwardly revised 0.2% drop in June, easing fears of a sharp economic slowdown fanned by a jump in the unemployment rate last week.
Meanwhile, retailbellwether Walmart WMT.N added 6.4% after raising its annual profit forecast for the second time this year as Americans flocked to its stores for inexpensive essentials.
Rival Target TGT.N also jumped 4.3%, while Costco COST.O advanced 1.1%.
A separate reading also showed the number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly last week.
"Today's retail sales data and jobless claims offer yet more evidence that recession risk remains low in the U.S. even as the economy decelerates from unsustainably strong growth levels," said Ronald Temple, chief market strategist at Lazard.
"The case for the Fed to ease by 25 basis points is rock solid, but there is little evidence to suggest a need for a 50 basis point reduction."
The yield of the two-year US2YT=RR and 10-year US10YT=RR Treasury notes rose after the data, with traders increasing bets for a 25-basis-point rate cut by the Federal Reserve to 76.5%, versus 65% before the data. 0#FEDWATCH
Investors have kept a cautious eye on this week's data releases - the last set of economic indicators before Fed Chairman Jerome Powell delivers a much-awaited speech at Jackson Hole next week.
Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic told the Financial Times he wasopen to an interest-rate cut in September, while St. Louis Fed chief Alberto Musalem said the time for the central bank tostart easing monetary policy might be near.
The S&P 500 .SPX and the Nasdaq .IXIC extended their winning streaks on the day to six sessions, hovering near levels last seen two weeks ago, when global equity markets were hit hard by concerns of a possible U.S. recession following adour jobs report.
At 11:38 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 458.42 points, or 1.15%, to 40,466.81, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 74.19 points, or 1.36%, to 5,529.40 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC gained 343.90 points, or 2.0%, to 17,536.51.
Among other movers, Cisco Systems CSCO.O rose 7.3% after it forecast better-than-expected first-quarter revenue and said it was cutting 7% of its global workforce.
Nike NKE.N climbed 3.7% as billionaire investor William Ackman built new stakes in the sportswear company, while Ulta Beauty ULTA.O jumped 11.2% after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway BRKa.N acquired a stake in the cosmetics store chain.
Deere & Co DE.N gained 6.6% after the farm, construction and forestry equipment maker beat analysts' expectations for third-quarter profit.
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Reporting by Shubham Batra and Shashwat Chauhan in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Maju Samuel and Pooja Desai
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