U.S. markets saw fresh record highs on Friday to end a week of solid gains. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% while the Dow and Nasdaq both advanced 0.4%.
Carnival shares led the S&P 500 higher, surging more than 7% on strong quarterly results. Verizon and 3M both rose more than 1.8% to push the Dow into record levels.
"You're seeing the geopolitical risk that was in the market seep out now," said Brent Schutte, chief investment strategist for Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management. "You had the Fed backstopping risk throughout the year but you had those geopolitical worries. Now, they're abating and the market is moving higher."
said Thursday that he had no doubt trade negotiators representing the U.S. and China would sign their so-called "phase one" trade deal in early January.," according to state-run media agency Xinhua. The S&P 500 is up nearly 28.5% year to date with less than 10 trading days left in 2019. That would be the index's best one-year performance since 2013, when it rallied 29.6%.
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