Global stocks rose Tuesday following a listless day on Wall Street as investors looked ahead to U.S.-Chinese trade talks.
In early trading, London’s FTSE 100 rose 0.3 percent to 7,153.12 and Germany’s DAX gained 1.2 percent to 11,141.98, while France’s CAC 40 advanced 0.7 percent to 5,051.09. On Wall Street, futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index were up 0.6 percent.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin will lead a delegation to Beijing on Thursday for talks aimed at resolving a tariff war over American complaints about Chinese technology ambitions.
