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        <title><![CDATA[US stocks drop on simmering US-China trade tensions]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US stock indexes dropped on Friday as Sino-US tensions weighed on markets struggling to gauge the pace of economic recovery from <strong>the coronavirus</strong>.</p><p>President Donald Trump’s statement on China’s plan for a <strong>national security law in Hong Kong</strong> on Thursday raised concerns over Washington and Beijing possibly reneging on their Phase-1 trade deal.</p><p>Fears of a renewed trade war cut short Wall Street’s April rally that was powered by optimism <strong>over a potential COVID-19 vaccine</strong> and the U.S. economy gradually emerging from the lockdowns.</p><p>The three main US stock indexes have kept to a tight range in May, but are still on course for weekly gains between 2.5 percent and 2.8 percent.</p><p>“It’s a bit of a push-pull as there’s some positive news from a healthcare perspective at least, but then we also have the rhetoric ramping up with China,” said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Asset Management in Chicago.</p><p>“Investors may be a little bit nervous, may pull in their horns ahead of a three-day weekend.”</p><p>At 11:23 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 137.22 points, or 0.6 percent, at 24,336.90, the S&amp;P 500 was down 9.8&nbsp; points, or 0.3 percent, at 2,938.76 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 18.07 points, or 0.2 percent, at 9,266.81.</p><p>Eight of the 11 major S&amp;P 500 sub-indexes were trading lower, led by energy as oil prices sank 5 percent.</p><p>Real Estate stocks were up in some defensive plays, while losses were limited in the consumer staples sector.</p><p>Mixed retail earnings from Walmart, Best Buy and Home Depot earlier in the week had shown online shopping gaining traction due to the stay-at-home orders, a trend that could damage brick-and-mortar players.</p><p>On Friday, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba reported better-than-expected quarterly profit, but its shares slipped 4.4 percent. Smaller rival Pinduoduo’s US-listed shares gained 9.6 percent after posting upbeat earnings report.</p><p>Hewlett Packard Enterprise fell 11.5 percent after missing second-quarter revenue and profit estimates, hit by global lockdowns since February.</p><p>Data analytics software maker Splunk rose 10.7 percent after saying it expects higher demand for its cloud services as people around the world take to working from home.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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