Stocks near record highs on trade hopes, dollar gains
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar rose and a gauge of global equities pushed closer to an all-time high on Wednesday after a batch of U.S. economic data brightened the economic outlook and investors remained bullish on the prospect of a U.S.-China trade accord.Stocks on Wall Street set fresh all-time highs, the latest surge after the Dow Industrials, S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes closed at new records in five of the past eight sessions.MSCI's gauge of stock markets across the globe gained 0.35%..