Stocks marched broadly higher on Wall Street in early trading Monday, building on solid gains for the market after a rally late last week.

Technology stocks accounted for a big share of the gains after the U.S. gave Chinese telecom giant Huawei another 90 days to buy equipment from American suppliers. Chipmaker Nvidia rose 4.8%.

Financial stocks also rose as bond prices headed lower, sending yields higher.

That's a reversal from much of August, when the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China prompted investors to seek the safety of U.S. government bonds, sending yields sharply lower. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbed to 1.60% from 1.54% late Friday.

Stocks are coming off their third weekly loss in a row as investors try to parse conflicting signals on the U.S. economy and determine whether a recession is on the horizon.

Last week, many stock indexes around the world struck their lowest levels this year, before a late rally suggested some calm was returning to the markets in what is a traditionally low-volume time of the year. Nonetheless, analysts say the concerns that drove last week's sell-off could resurface at any time.

"Markets actually ended last week on a relatively good note so what we may actually be witnessing right now is traders relishing the blissful trade war silence rather than anything more optimistic," said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA.

KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 was up 1% as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern Time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 216 points, or 0.8%, to 26,103. The Nasdaq climbed 1.1%.

Major stock indexes in Europe also rose.

CONFLICTING SIGNALS: The steadier mood was evident in the fact that markets appeared to shrug off a report showing that one-third of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics said they believe a slowing U.S. economy will tip into recession in 2021. That's up from 25% in the equivalent survey taken in February.

President Donald Trump spent a good portion of the last week tweeting about the U.S. economy from his New Jersey golf club, trying to allay concerns of recession and offering an optimistic outlook for the economy after last week's steep drop in the financial markets.

"I don't think we're having a recession," Trump told reporters Sunday as he returned to Washington from his New Jersey golf club.

TRADE WAR: Investors are weighing how much of an impact the trade conflict between Washington and Beijing will have on global economies, some of which are already showing signs of slowing.

Earlier this month, Trump announced plans to extend tariffs across virtually all Chinese imports, many of them consumer products that were exempt from early rounds of tariffs. The tariffs have been delayed, but ultimately will raise costs for U.S. companies bringing goods in from China.

NO MAKEUP REQUIRED: Estee Lauder jumped 8.9% after the cosmetics company's latest quarterly results topped Wall Street's forecasts. The company's fiscal year earnings and revenue outlook also came in ahead of expectations.