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U.S. stocks closed sharply lower on Friday as a lack of concrete progress toward reducing U.S-China trade tensions bolstered risk-off U.S. stocks closed sharply lower on Friday as a lack of concrete progress toward reducing U.S-China trade tensions bolstered risk-off sentiment and overshadowed the November employment report. Benchmarks The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.24%  fell 558.72 points, or 2.2%, to close at 24,388.95, the S&P 500 index SPX, -2.33% retreated 62.87 points, or 2.3%, to 2,633.08, while the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -3.05% slumped 219.01 points, or 3%, to finish at 6,969.25. Ten of 11 sectors in the S&P 500 lost… The yuan is falling again as investors grapple with fresh prospects of deteriorating trade relations between the U.S. and China. China’s currency has pared around half the gains it garnered in a two-day rally sparked by signs of progress in trade talks at last weekend’s summit of Group of 20 leaders in Buenos Aires. The arrest this week of a top Chinese tech executive has some investors concerned that a trade truce between the U.S. and China could be more complicated to maintain than anticipated. The yuan is down 5.5%… Treasury prices on Thursday rose, pushing yields lower, as a resurgence in tensions between the U.S. and China prompted investors to leave stocks for the perceived safety of haven as*ets including U.S. government debt. Amid the flight from risk as*ets, traders also handled a raft of data pointing to continued growth even as some talk up the prospect of a slowdown in 2019. Bond and stock markets were closed on Wednesday to mark a day of mourning for George H.W. Bush, who died at 94. As a result, a number of economic… Global investors were rattled Tuesday by a move in U.S. bond markets that could signal slowing growth in the world's largest economy and taint the bullish sentiment provided by an apparent breakthrough in trade talks between Washington and Beijing. U.S. Treasury bond yields