Trump Touts Rapid 1,000-Point Stock Surge in Speech

U.S. President Donald Trump told an audience on Friday that the stock market had surged almost 1,000 points in the preceding ten minutes, according to several real-time financial news services that relayed his remarks. Market-tracking feeds reported that major equity benchmarks added a further 300 points shortly after Trump spoke, but the President did not specify which index he was referencing and no official data were immediately available to corroborate the exact figures he cited.