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US stocks rose on Friday, as technology shares were boosted by signs of progress in the ongoing trade talks between the United States and China. Top trade negotiators from the two countries met to wrap up a week of talks on some of the thorniest issues in their trade war, with President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He set to meet at the Oval Office later in the day.
Stocks have largely risen this week on hopes of a trade deal, but a batch of weak data pointing to growing headwinds to the US economy put the brakes on the S&P 500's three-day rally on Thursday.
"There seems to be quite a bit of optimism around trade discussions," said Shawn Cruz, manager of trading strategy at TD Ameritrade in Jersey City, New Jersey.
"What I'm expecting them to say is that the talks are proceeding and that they're comfortable postponing the tariff increase on March 1."
Tech stocks jumped 1.12 percent, leading gains among the 11 major S&P sectors and putting the benchmark index on track for its four weeks of gains.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite were on course to post nine straight weeks of gains.
Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and chipmakers led the rally in the tech sector. The Philadelphia Semiconductor index gained 1.08 percent, led by Intel Corp's 2.7 percent rise after Morgan Stanley lifted its rating to "overweight".
At 12:41 p.m. ET the Dow was up 168.11 points, or 0.65 percent, at 26,018.74. The S&P 500 was up 15.30 points, or 0.55 percent, at 2,790.18 and the Nasdaq was up 54.64 points, or 0.73 percent, at 7,514.34.
Kraft Heinz Co tumbled 27.4 percent, weighing the most on the S&P along with a 1.7 percent fall in Class B shares of the company's controlling stakeholder, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Copyright Reuters, 2019

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