BEIJING — Stock markets steadied on Tuesday after a rout the day before, amid signs that Beijing would not immediately act on its veiled threat to use the value of its currency as a weapon in China’s trade war with the United States.

Share prices rose on Wall Street, while European indexes and Asian markets were lower.

The calmer sentiment on Tuesday stood in sharp relief to the turbulence of Monday, when Wall Street experienced its worst day of the year. Fears that China might devalue its currency to retaliate against President Trump’s threat of higher tariffs on Chinese-made goods drove investors around the world to put their money in places generally considered safe.

But on Tuesday, officials in both China and the United States moved to ease concerns that the trade war was set to devolve further.

The S&P 500 climbed 1.3 percent. Shares of technology companies, among the hardest hit as trade tensions rose in recent days, led the market higher.