Stocks rally on trade hopes, dollar has 1st weekly gain of 2019
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stock indexes jumped on Friday, with Wall Street posting a fourth straight week of gains, and the dollar had its first positive week since mid-December as optimism increased that an end is in sight to the U.S.-China trade conflict.Stocks were boosted by a Bloomberg report that said China sought to raise its annual goods imports from the United States by more than $1 trillion (£776 billion) in order to reduce its trade surplus to zero by 2024.That followed a report on..