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US stocks edge higher as continued oil rally offsets weak retail-sales data

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  • US equities edged higher on Friday as a continued oil-price rally outweighed jarring retail-sales data and intensifying US-China trade tensions.
  • West Texas Intermediate crude futures climbed 7.3% on Friday, capping off a roughly 19% weekly gain for the commodity.
  • Consumer spending tumbled by an unprecedented 16.4% in April, nearly double the record contraction in March, the Commerce Department announced.
  • The Trump administration said on Friday that it aimed to block semiconductor shipments to Huawei Technologies. China’s state media fired back, saying the country would “restrict or investigate” US tech firms if such a policy were implemented.
  • Watch major indexes update live here.

US stocks edged higher on Friday as a continued rally in oil prices offset dour retail-sales data and escalating tensions between the US and China.

Consumer spending sank by an unprecedented 16.4% in April, the Commerce Department announced. The figure was nearly double the record contraction of 8.3% in March. The decline was starker than economists expected; the median estimate compiled by Bloomberg was a 12% drop.

Here’s where US indexes stood at the 4 p.m. ET market close on Friday:

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The market opened about 1% lower before steadily crawling upward, notching minor gains across all three major indexes.

Equities declined in early trading as dueling remarks between the Trump administration and China revived trade stresses. The White House on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies, saying that such a policy “cuts off Huawei’s efforts to undermine US export controls.”

China fired back, with the editor-in-chief of the state-run Global Times newspaper tweeting that the country would “restrict or investigate US companies such as Qualcomm, Cisco and Apple” if the US blocked Huawei’s supply chain.

Semiconductor stocks including Qualcomm and AMD slid more than 2% on the news in early trading.

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JCPenney stood out as one of the day’s biggest winners, surging as much as 59% after making a last-minute interest payment. The company had reportedly been considering bankruptcy and avoided defaulting on its debt with the Friday payment.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil gained as much as 8.6%, to $29.92 per barrel. The US commodity rose roughly 19% for the week, driven by widespread production cuts and signs of demand creeping back into the struggling market. Brent crude, oil’s international benchmark, rose 5.3%, to $32.78 per barrel at intraday highs.

Friday’s tepid session followed a 377-point gain for the Dow on Thursday. Surging bank stocks pulled indexes higher, overshadowing bleak labor-market data. Weekly jobless claims reached 3 million last week, bringing the metric’s eight-week total to more than 36 million. Though the latest update was the sixth straight decline for weekly claims, it still dwarfed average readings.

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Trump says the US is ‘looking at’ Chinese companies that trade on US exchanges but don’t follow accounting rules





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