Wall St stocks positive while Europe falls after ECB raises interest rates

Wall Street stocks traded positively on Thursday after the Federal Reserve signalled the possibility of further policy tightening, having kept interest rates steady at its meeting a day earlier.

Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 gained 0.3 per cent at the New York open, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was up 0.1 per cent, continuing its upward momentum after five successive days of gains.

The moves come a day after the US central…