Wall Street ended 2015 with mixed results, depression of raw materials, in particular, weighed on the Dow, while the Nasdaq has benefited from the stars of performance technology.
According the final results, the index Dow Jones Industrial Average Featured yielded 2.23% over the year to 17,425.03 points its first decline since the financial crisis of 2008.
The Nasdaq has however . gained 5.73% to 5007.41 point
Especially followed by investors, the broader S & amp;. P 500 was down just 0.73% to 2043.94 point
The year remains much better than 2008, when the Dow had plunged 33.84%, the S & amp; P 500 and the Nasdaq 38.49% 40.54% and it contrasts with the progressions Two figures of the S & amp;. P 500 and Nasdaq last three years
To the only day Thursday, in the absence of many investors having anticipated Eve, the Dow Jones yielded 1.02 %, or 178.84 points, the Nasdaq 1.15% or 58.43 points and the S & amp;. P 500 0.94% or 19.42 dots
“There is more motivation to for sale at year-end as buy, “said Jack Ablin, BMO Private Bank, however, calling not to over-interpret a decline caused by such portfolio adjustments partly motivated by tax considerations.
“Everybody is in the mood to hurry to get to the closing bell for us to finish 2015 with a quite mediocre and enjoy a three-day weekend, without paying too much attention to Tuesday’s increase or decrease in yesterday that continues today “, explained during the meeting Michael James at Wedbush Securities.
To the only day Thursday, the market had still reflect a weak currency, with a stronger than expected rise in weekly jobless claims.
To top it all, the index of purchasing manager of the Chicago area, 42.9, turned out much worse than expected, the lowest since July 2009.
But the oil market, after opening down, started a small rebound, without a clear falling more than 30% year on year benchmark contracts for WTI and Brent
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It was not enough to bring ExxonMobil, down 0.20% to 77.95 dollars, Chevron (-0.14% to 89.96 dollars) or the oil services company Halliburton (-0.26% to 34.04 dollars).
The conglomerate General Electric gained 0.32% to 31.15 dollars after announcing a one billion to supply gas turbines for the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) to meet the needs growing energy of the Kingdom.
However, the defense group Lockheed Martin has lost 1.21% to 217.15 dollars despite a one billion dollar agreement with the Pentagon to build 32 aircraft C-130 Hercules 2020.
The small biotechnology company Chimerix jumped 7.19% to 8.95 dollars after the Point72 Asset Management fund Steve Cohen announced Wednesday have acquired a 5.3%. The company had seen during his plunge of almost 80% earlier in the week after the announcement of disappointing trials for antiviral drug for patients who received a stem cell transplant.
The automaker General Motors lost 0.93% to 34.01 dollars after a New York judge has cleared the way for the opening of a trial in January on injuries allegedly caused by a defect in his system ignition.
Finally Microsoft, which announced it would now prevent users of its email service if he suspected that government services were trying to hack their account, yielded 1.47% at 55 48 dollars.
The bond market was up on the day, the yield on ten-year Treasury is displaying at 2.269% against 2.293% Wednesday night, and that good-for 30 years at 3.016% against 3.034% yesterday.
chr / JLD / sbo
31/12/2015 10:57:29 p.m. – New York, December 31, 2015 (AFP) – AFP © 2015
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