U.S. stocks traded mostly higher toward the end of trading, with the Dow Jones index surging more than 650 points on Tuesday.
The Dow traded up 1.63% to 40,865.59 while the NASDAQ fell 0.11% to 18,452.31. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 0.37% to 5,652.28.
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Leading and Lagging Sectors
Industrials shares jumped by 2.3% on Tuesday.
In trading on Tuesday, information technology shares fell by 0.8%.
Top Headline
Morgan StanleyMS reported better-than-expected second-quarter results.
Morgan Stanley reported second-quarter EPS of $1.82, up from $1.24 a year ago and beating the consensus of $1.65. The U.S. bank reported second-quarter sales of $15.02 billion, up 11.6% year over year, beating the consensus of $14.30 billion.
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Commodities
In commodity news, oil traded down 1.3% to $80.82 while gold traded up 1.5% at $2,464.30.
Silver traded up 1.6% to $31.44 on Tuesday, while copper fell 1.7% to $4.4505.
Euro zone
European shares closed lower today. The eurozone's STOXX 600 fell 0.28%, Germany's DAX fell 0.39% and France's CAC 40 fell 0.69%. Spain's IBEX 35 Index fell 0.47%, while London's FTSE 100 fell 0.22%.
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for the Eurozone fell by 7.6 points to a reading of 43.7 in July, while Eurozone posted a trade surplus of EUR 13.9 billion in May versus a year-ago gap of EUR 0.4 billion.
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany fell to 41.8 in July, recording the first decline in a year. Italy reported a trade surplus of EUR 6.43 billion in May versus a year-ago surplus of EUR 4.767 billion year.
Asia Pacific Markets
Asian markets closed mixed on Tuesday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 gaining 0.20%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index falling 1.60%, China's Shanghai Composite Index gaining 0.08% and India's S&P BSE Sensex gaining 0.06%.
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