On Monday, local time, Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, said that the federal government's "shutdown" is expected to end this week. Coupled with signs of easing global trade tensions, investors 'worries have eased and they continue to be optimistic about major listed companies. The three major U.S. stock indexes collectively closed higher on Monday. At the close, the Dow was up 1.12%, the S & P 500 was up 1.07%, and the Nasdaq was up 1.37%. Technology stocks remained the main driving force for the rebound of U.S. stocks on Monday. Preliminary data showed that sales of Apple's new mobile phones in the 10 days after its launch were significantly higher than that of previous generation models, making investors optimistic about the sales prospects of Apple's mobile phones. Some brokerages upgraded Apple's stock rating to "buy", and Apple's share price closed up 3.94% on Monday, setting a record closing high, leading the Dow higher with software services giant Safes.

International gold prices surged sharply on the 20th, hitting an intraday record high

In precious metals, the U.S. federal government "stop" continued, and the market continued to see the prospects of the U.S. Federal Reserve to reduce interest rates and factors such as global multi-central bank increases in gold, driving the price of gold on Monday to a new record high. As of the closing, the New York commodity exchange gold price in December received $4359.4 per ounce, an increase of 3.47%.

Amazon cloud service sudden failure hit many companies

On the company side, the cloud computing service platform (AWS) owned by Amazon, an American cloud service giant, had a sudden service failure on Monday, which caused network connection problems of many companies around the world, and the interruption of many popular websites and application services, including Amazon's shopping websites, video services and voice assistants, and many British banks and telecom service providers also experienced service abnormalities. At present, the connection problem has gradually recovered. This incident has not caused an impact on Amazon's stock price. Investors still expect the company to release a better-than-expected financial report for the third quarter of 2025 on October 30. Amazon's stock price closed up 1.61% on Monday.%. Since the start of the third-quarter earnings season for U.S. stocks, about 85% of the S&P 500 index constituent stocks that have released earnings have performed better than expected in the quarter.

Three major European stocks show collective rise

On the European side, the U.S. and Ukrainian leaders¡¯ talks on Friday were ¡°atmospherically tense¡± and failed to agree on the terms of ending the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, while investors betting on the outlook for European military-industrial enterprises to increase output on Monday, with military-industrial stocks generally rising significantly, with the German Rhine metal rising by 5.9 percent, and the three major European stocks indicating a collective rise on Monday. By the closing, the UK stock market rose by 0.52 percent, the French stock market rose by 0.39 percent, and the German stock market rose by 1.80 percent.

International oil prices fell on the 20th

In terms of crude oil futures, due to concerns about oversupply, there has been an obvious "futures premium" market in the crude oil futures market. The prices of U.S. light crude oil and London Brent crude oil futures for delivery in the next six months have been significantly higher than the contract prices in recent months., indicating that traders are obviously underestimating recent crude oil demand. Affected by this expectation, international oil prices fell slightly on Monday, hitting a new low since May this year. As of the close, light crude oil futures for November delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed at US$57.52 per barrel, a decrease of 0.03%; London Brent crude oil futures for December delivery closed at US$61.01 per barrel, a decrease of 0.46%.