The U.S. indexes took up uncertainly at the start of today’s session, as increases in DuPont and Exxon Mobile brought Dow Jones Industrial Average in positive territory for the year. Shortly after the beginning of the session showed that purchases of new homes in the U.S. rebounded from a record low level to which collapsed in May, which also supported the rise of quotations. Last week brought a volatile increases in the indexes, which found support in good quarterly results of several large American companies, despite concerns about the results of stress tests of European banks. They came on Friday and showed that seven of 91 tested banks do not have enough capital in case of a subsequent crisis. The index of 30 largest stock exchange and traded companies in the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.4 percent to 10 464.20 points and a half hours after the start of the session. Lead by the beginning of this year is 0.4 per cent. The broader S & P 500 added 0.5 percent to 1 108.63 points while the Nasdaq Exchange Nasdaq Composite index rose by 0.6% to 2 282.79 points. S & P 500 remains below the levels half a percentage point from the end of 2009 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 0.6 percent.
Shares of BP rose 4.3 percent to 38.46 dollars per share, after speculation that CEO Tony Howard company may be removed from his post. The U.S. dollar becomes cheaper against the euro, yen and British pound. Oil is traded with a fall of 0.1 percent to 78.90 dollars a barrel and gold with delivery in August with a cheaper 0.5% to 1 182.2 dollars an ounce. The yield on ten-year U.S. government bonds remained unchanged at a level of 2.99 percent. In this week’s financial statements go further 157 companies by S & P 500 for the previous quarter, according to CNN. Most important among them are the names of Boeing, DuPont, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Merck.