RTTNews | Aug 10, 2020 04:45PM EDT

04:45 Monday, August 10, 2020

|BEGINSUB|Asian Shares Advance As Trump Orders Coronavirus Relief|ENDSUB|Asian stocks rose on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders aimed at extending coronavirus relief to Americans.Democratic leaders, however, said that the new executive orders circumventing deadlocked congressional negotiations are far from adequate to meet the scope of the crises facing the United States.

|BEGINSUB|European Markets Close Higher|ENDSUB|European markets ended higher on Monday, reacting positively to last week's encouraging data on U.S. jobs growth, Chinese data that showed China's factory deflation eased in July, and news about U.S. President Donald Trump signing executive orders aimed at extending coronavirus relief to Americans.

|BEGINSUB|Dow Climbs To Five-Month Closing High But Nasdaq Closes In The Red|ENDSUB|Stocks moved mostly higher during trading on Monday, with the Dow and the S&P 500 climbed to their best closing levels in over five months. However, weakness among technology stocks contributed to a continued pullback by the Nasdaq.

|BEGINSUB|Stock Alert: Omeros Jumps To New 52-week High On Positive Narsoplimab Data |ENDSUB|Shares of Omeros Corp. are gaining almost 48 percent or $6.76 in Mondays morning trade at $20.89, after earlier touching a new 52-week high of $22.00 following positive data from a study evaluating Narsoplimab in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.

|BEGINSUB|Stock Alert: Eton Pharmaceuticals Climbs To New 52-week High |ENDSUB|Shares of TS:ETON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (TS:ETON) are rising almost 16 percent or $1.05 in Mondays morning trade at $7.69, after earlier touching a new 52-week high of $8.73 despite the absence of any specific news that could move the stock.

U.S. stocks opened higher on Monday after President Donald Trump signed executive orders aimed at extending coronavirus relief to Americans. The executive orders include an extension of expanded unemployment benefits, a deferral of student loan payments through 2020, a federal moratorium on evictions and a payroll tax holiday.

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