U.S. stock-index benchmarks surged in early Thursday trade, as strong corporate earnings helped to overshadow Turkey's currency crisis and as China and the U.S. appeared set to resume trade talks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.25% was most recently 323 points, or 1.3%, higher at 25,492, more than erasing its Wednesday loss, which was spared by worries about emerging markets in light of a currency crisis in Turkish lira TRYUSD, +4.6753% China's commerce ministry will send a delegation to the U.S. later this month to resume trade talks, according to reports, which would mark the first such meeting since July. Elsewhere, the S&P 500 index was up 18 points, or 0.7%, at 2,836, while Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.71% advanced 0.5% at 7,814.
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