Wall Street shrugged off the latest announcement from the European Central Bank that it was holding interest rates unchanged and that it would end its quantitative easing program this month. China's pledge to increase soybean imports helped offset news of another Canadian being held in Beijing and warnings from the governor of the People's Bank of China that the Chinese economy was slowing. Although downward revisions to growth and inflation forecasts were viewed as another negative for global economic growth, the central bank said it plans to keep EU interest rates unchanged through the summer of 2019.