With the movements of the indexes in a narrow range and an excess of optimism is leading the session on Wall Street today. Nearly an hour after the start of trading Dow Jones registered a growth of 0.25% to 12,013 points, S & P 500 has increased by 0.11% to 1255 points and the Nasdaq fell by 0.25% to 2679 points. The investors monitor the events in Italy, whose prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is facing growing pressure to resign. According to rumors Berlusconi’s withdrawal is a matter of hours, although he himself denied in your Facebook profile information from the press. The rumors of the resignation of Italian Prime Minister came shortly before a key vote on the budget and financial reforms in the country’s parliament, which will be held tomorrow. Meanwhile, yields on Italian 10-year bonds rose to a record high 6.68%. So take the country towards Greece, Portugal and Ireland have already passed this way. Previously, the European Central Bank (ECB) warned that it can stop to buy Italian bonds, if the government does not approve the promised financial reforms.

With a sharp decline in the indices started the week on the New York Stock Exchange.
“Next week will be very volatile, as investors were frustrated by the debt problems of Europe and the debate on lifting the ceiling of U.S. debt”, said Paul Nolte of MarketWatch, Managing Director of Dearborn Partners.
An hour and a half after the beginning of the session Dow Jones tumbled 1.24 percent to 12,325 points, S & P 500 1.23% wiped by 1 299 points, while Nasdaq lost 1.39 percent to 2751 points. A spokesman for Republicans in the House of Representatives John Bonner said that his party will not accept any tax increases. Republicans will insist on a firm commitment to shrinking government budget deficit of the United States to reach agreement on the debt ceiling. This week is to go and more corporate accounts. Only the companies included in the S & P 500, 100 will announce its financial results.

It is possible Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group to make an offer for the acquisition of NYSE Euronext and thus to avoid lagging behind the wave of mergers of leading exchanges around the world, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources. This is one of the few possible moves on Nasdaq in terms of increased activity in mergers in the sector. They leave fewer attractive opportunities for growth and development of exchange operators, sources indicate. The business model is based on the Nasdaq of high competitiveness and trade in shares at very narrow margins. Therefore, the operator is vulnerable to any merger, leading to optimization of trading systems and more competitive products. According to the Nasdaq aware there are other alternatives. They are linked to or linking to IntercontinentalExchange Exchange Trading Options CME. Option for owners and the Nasdaq was seeking a buyer who can buy shares of the operator. Currently, a prime candidate for acquisition of NYSE Euronext is Deutsche Boerse, as the transaction price will be around 10.2 billion dollars. For comparison, the Nasdaq market valuation is about 5.7 billion dollars.

The U.S. shares lost positions in the last hours of trading stock on Thursday, with unsatisfactory results dragged down shares of companies trading in consumer goods, while the energy sector has suffered due to uncertainty about the moratorium on drilling for oil in deep waters. Standard & Poor’s 500 has made a loss for the fourth straight day – the longest red index series for seven weeks. S & P 500 fell 1.68 percent to 1074 points. Nasdaq Composite lost 1.63 percent to 2217 points. “The mood of the market is bleak,” said Steve Sosnik, strategist Timber Hill LLC / Interactive Brokers Group LLC. “The feeling is not good, and the reason is not just one article or adopting a new law. This is a disease, “he added. Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.41 percent to 10,153 points. J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America lost their positions in anticipation of new details about the legislation governing the financial sector, which is expected to agree the Senate and Congress in Washington. The new law is likely to tighten control over the financial sector more than analysts expected. Lawmakers have agreed on new capital requirements for banks that will have a five-year grace period. According to a clause proposed by Congress, the White House administration will be able to levy any bank that failed to repay the Federal Reserve rescue packages for granted during the financial crisis.
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Friday’s session began with reductions for the main indexes of Wall Street, although two of the companies in the Dow Jones IA – General Electric and Bank of America, announced better than expected financial results for the first quarter. Data on housing in the U.S. in March, which came out before the start of the session also proved to be much better than forecasts. However, the index of the 30 largest stock exchange and frequently traded companies Dow Jones IA decreased by 0.5% to 11 093.33 points and a half hours after the start of the session. The broad measure of stock S & P 500 lost 1 percent to 1 200.61 points and the index of companies by the exchange Nasdaq – Nasdaq Composite, decreased by 0.8% to 2 496.73 points. Session on Thursday brought minor changes to the index after three disappointing news for initial unemployment and industrial production. Shares of industrial conglomerate General Electric dropped by 2.4 percent to 19.03 dollars on the New York Stock Exchange after the company reported 18 percent drop in profit for the first quarter to 2.3 billion dollars, or 21 cents a share. Analysts had expected a smaller profit per share of 16 cents. The largest U.S. bank Bank of America, in turn, said it issued a profit of 3.2 billion dollars for the first three months of the year, or 28 cents a share. This was three times more than market forecasts, but shares of the bank dropped by 3.6 percent to 18.75 dollars on the New York Stock Exchange.
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The latest this week in the U.S. trading session began with strong increases in three major indexes, after earlier today showed that initial unemployment in the country has fallen to its lowest level in 19 months, while factory activity in the sector reached its highest point for six years. The index of 30 largest and most traded companies in the Dow Jones IA U.S. rose by 0.7% to 10 396.82 points one hour after the start of the session. The broader S & P 500 advanced by 0.8% to 1 179.14 points and Nasdaq Exchange main index Nasdaq Composite, meanwhile, added 0.7 percent in value to 2 415.13 points. Stock optimism today was supported by data on the labor market, which showed that the planned redundancies reduced for the 13th consecutive month in March, and new applications for unemployment benefits fell to its lowest level since August 2009 here. The number of long-term unemployed Americans is also reduced. Finance Minister of the United States, however, warned in a television interview today that unemployment in the U.S. can remain “unacceptably high” for an extended period of time. He stated that at this stage, the country can not afford to reduce its budget deficit at the expense of supporting the economy forward CNBC. Even better were the data after the start of today’s trading session, which showed that U.S. factory sector recover more quickly from the crisis. The index, which monitors business activity in it, rose for the eighth consecutive month in March and reached 59.6 points to its highest level in six years.
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Lack of important economic data in the early weeks of the new exchange led to the tentative start of today’s session on Wall Street. All three major indexes found themselves in positive territory in early trade but shortly thereafter changed direction and gravitate around the neutral zone. Dow Jones Industrial Average, which brings together 30 most actively traded stock in U.S. companies with the highest market capitalization remains unchanged at 10 570.51 points by one hour after the start of trade. Broader index S & P 500, meanwhile rose by 0,1 percent to 1 138.68 points. On the Nasdaq stock exchange, however, the main Nasdaq Composite index rose by 0.2% to 2 330.15 points, which is its highest level since early September 2008, technology companies are among the most profitable today, but those in the health sector is ranked among the top losers in the trade. The last session last week led to significant increases in the indexes after the data on the labor market showed that unemployment in the United States remains at a level of 9.7 percent for the second consecutive month in February, but the cuts in non-agricultural sectors of the economy fell more than expected. Trading last week was volatile because of the key data on employment in the sectors of U.S. economy and may continue to be volatile in coming days and because of scarce economic data.
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The three main stock indexes in the U.S. I found myself in negative territory at the beginning of the last session of the week for Wall Street, after Federal Reserve unexpectedly raised interest rates on loans which commercial banks in the country. Investors took that as a sign of recent increases in base rate in the U.S. and opted to take a cautious stance. The index of the 30 largest and most traded stock companies, Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by 0.1% to 10 383.68 points and a half hours after the beginning of the session. Broader index S & P 500 gave up 0.1 percent to 1 105 points, mainly because of reductions in financial, energy and extractive companies. On the Nasdaq Stock Exchange main index Nasdaq Composite lost 0.2% to 2 236 points. Previous three sessions brought to the state index increases because of the good data on housing and factory sector. The encouraging financial results of the largest PC maker in the world also Hewlett-Packard stock increased optimism. The surprise Fed decision, announced after the end of the session on Wall Street on Thursday, dipped indexes in Asia and Europe today.
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