U.S. stocks rose in volatile trade as investors hoped the United States and China would reach a deal on trade when Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet Saturday in Buenos Aires on the sidelines of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit. Earlier in the session, the three major indexes were significantly lower after Trump and White House officials indicated increasing U.S. tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese exports to 25 percent from the current 10 percent. In U.S. economic news, annual home-price gains slowed sharply in September to 5.1 percent, the weakest increase since January 2017. Consumer confidence fell in November from the previous month's 18-year high. The U.S. dollar rose to a nearly two-week high versus a basket of other currencies after Trump said he would proceed with higher tariffs on Chinese goods, fueling worries about global trade tensions. Gold fell sharply to a more than one-week low as the dollar rallied on Trump's remarks and comments from a U.S. Federal Reserve official that the central bank would continue raising interest rates. Futures sank 0.8 percent to $1,213 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 108.49, or 0.4 percent, to 24,748.73. Twenty-one of the index's 30 components gained, led by Verizon Communications, which jumped 2.5 percent. Walgreens drugstores added 2.2 percent, and Home Depot advanced 2 percent. United Technologies plunged 4.1 percent a day after announcing the industrial conglomerate would split into three independent companies. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 8.75, or 0.3 percent, to 2,682.20. Shares of General Motors (GM) dropped 2.55 percent after Trump said his administration is considering cutting the automaker's subsidies, including for electric vehicles, after it announced the closure of several factories in North America. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index was virtually unchanged, rising 0.85 to 7,082.70. Netflix surged 2 percent, but Amazon was flat, Google-parent Alphabet declined 0.35 percent, and Facebook lost 1 percent.