Posted on 10 April 2010. Tags: financial results, index, major indexes, monthly basis, USA, Wall Street
Friday’s trading session began with the U.S. increased for all three major indexes, after investor confidence that the economy will continue to recover, took precedence over concerns about Debt Crisis in Greece. On Monday begins a new season in the U.S. corporate financial results with the aluminum producer Alcoa for the first quarter of this year. The only economic data out today showed that stocks of finished goods to wholesalers in the U.S. rose more than expected in February to 0.6 percent on a monthly basis. Their increase in January amounted to 0.1 per cent. The increase in stocks of finished goods is a sign to reduce business costs in the future because chains wholesale are more likely to buy new goods when their stocks are exhausted. Index Dow Jones Industrial Average, which unites 30 largest stock companies and liquidity in the U.S. increased by 0.3% to 10 958.13 points an hour after the start of the session. Since the beginning of the week he was on the verge of psychological level of 11 thousand points, but unable to move. The broader S & P 500 added 0.2 percent to 1 189.06 points, supported mainly by energy companies and consumer sectors. Meanwhile, the main stock index, Nasdaq – Nasdaq Composite, also rose 0.2% to 2 439.71 points. Yesterday’s volatile session brought mild increases in the indexes after the best sales figures of some of the largest chains of retail in the U.S. in March. They managed to offset the news of the increase in new applications for unemployment benefits last week.
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Posted on 23 March 2010. Tags: Dow Jones IA, session, shares, Timid beginning, Wall Street, Wall Street session
Today’s session on Wall Street began timidly with slight increases for the main indexes reached new highs for the past 18 months to the end of yesterday’s stock trading. Shares of extraction and cyclical companies perform best and brought out three U.S. index of positive territory despite news of the decline in sales of homes to their lowest level in nine months in February. Dow Jones IA, which unites 30 largest actively traded stock companies in the U.S., added 0.3 percent to 10 820.88 points and a half hours after the beginning of the session. The broad S & P 500 remained almost unchanged at a level of 1 166 points, having earlier climbed by nearly 0.2 per cent. On the Nasdaq Stock Exchange main index Nasdaq Composite also gravitates around the zero level of 2 393.55 points. All three indexes ended the session in positive territory Monday backed by shares in the health sector due to the adoption of health reform the House of Representatives to the Senate, cited by CNN. Shortly after today’s session it became clear that cold weather and snow storms in the U.S. in February decreased further activity in the property market, resulting in sales of existing homes decreased for the fourth consecutive month. They fell to 5.02 million residential units on an annual basis in February, which was their lowest level in nine months.
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Posted in USA Finances
Posted on 17 February 2010. Tags: agricultural machinery, housing sector, industrial sector, residential sector, session, stock exchanges, Wall Street
The Green Wave of the U.S. stock exchanges increases brought the three main index at the beginning of today’s session, after it became clear that the country’s industrial sector continues to grow for the seventh consecutive month in January. Along with increasing production and increasing utilization of production capacity at factories, mines and utilities. Shortly before this good news for the housing sector showed that the number of new housing projects in which developers in the United States have begun to work increased for the third consecutive month in January. State of the housing sector is one of the most important orientations for the overall state of the economy by increasing activity and it portends growth of gross domestic product. Dow Jones IA, which comprises 30 most frequently traded companies in the United States with the highest market capitalization rose by 0.3 percent to 10 301 points an hour after the start of trading. Broader index S & P 500 grew by 0.4% to 1 098.99 points, supported most of the extractive and financial companies. Nasdaq Composite, which brings together companies from the Stock Exchange Nasdaq, rose by 0.3% at 2 221.73 points. Federal Reserve data showed today that the index of industrial production in the United States rose by 0.9 percent on a monthly basis in January. The index traces the value of output of factories, mines and utilities. Utilization of production capacity increased from 71.9 percent in December to 72.6 percent in January.
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