Today’s session began with increases for the main stock indexes in the United States, which yesterday recorded its first decline for the past six days. Investors ignored news of the decline of the index of consumer confidence in the University of Michigan to 66 points in November from 70.6 in October. The index of the 30 largest stock companies Dow Jones IA increased by 0.8% to 10 280.5 points an hour and a half after the beginning of the session. Broader index S & P 500 advanced by 0.6 percent to 1094.1 points while the index of companies by the exchange Nasdaq – Nasdaq Composite, rose by 0.6 percent to 2160.9 points. Best of all companies in the composition of the Dow Jones IA presented Walt Disney, after the company issued a profit of 895 million dollars in the third quarter. Shares of Walt Disney risen by nearly 5 percent to 30.45 dollars per share and its market capitalization has increased by 34 percent since the beginning of the year. Before the start of trading sessions it became clear that the U.S. trade deficit was a record for the observed past nine years, increased almost 20 percent on a monthly basis in September. The negative balance of trade balance increased to 36.5 billion dollars, mainly because the price of oil and imports from China.
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The session on the stock exchanges in the United States began tentatively in anticipation of a series of financial statements for the economy of key companies in this and next week. After the end of today’s session the results will come out of Apple technology company in the third quarter, then another 135 companies in the index S & P 500 will publish their reports in the next few days. The index of 30 most-traded stock companies Dow Jones IA sailing around the level of 10 thousand points and increased by 0.4 percent to 10,037.9 points in the first hour of trading. The wider measure of stock S & P 500 rose by 0.4 percent to 1091.8 points while the index of companies by the exchange Nasdaq – Nasdaq Composite, added 0.1 percent to 2159.7 points, having found himself a little and a negative domain. After a strong start to the season rally corporate indexes subsided late last week after the financial results of General Electric and Bank of America disappoint market participants. In this week’s reports are expected to Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Yahoo, Pfizer, Wells Fargo, eBay, Merck, American Express, Microsoft, Travelers, 3M, AT & T and Amazon.
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U.S. indexes rose on Thursday as energy shares rose, influenced by the price of oil, which climbed to their highest level of a year. This helped to give the movement indexes from the first hours after the opening of the session when the market was under the influence of the results of Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, which disappointed investors. The indexes went up to a new annual peak. The index of the 30 most liquid stock companies Dow Jones IA added to the 0.5 percent to 10,062.94 points, after the previous session passed the psychological limit of 10000 points. The wider S & P 500 climbed 0.4 percent to 1096.94 points and the index of companies in the Nasdaq stock exchange ended with a growth of 0.1 percent to 2173.29 points. Shares of Exxon Mobil and Chevron Corp. by adding 1.5% to its value after oil jumped more than 77 dollars a barrel. Citigroup dropped by 5 percent, while Goldman Sachs fell by 1.9 percent. Weakness in financial shares dominated the beginning of the session when the Dow Jones IA down again than 10000 points. The data published by the Ministry of Energy of the United States, which showed that reserves of gasoline fell unexpectedly, caused sharp increases in oil prices, which sparked and interest in the oil companies and turn the market.
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Last week proved to be win-win for U.S. indexes and bring them loss of around 2% over the previous Friday. The reason for this was a string of disappointing economic data, led to today’s report on the labor market in the largest economy in the world in September. He wavered investors about the pace of recovery in the U.S. economy because unemployment in the country has risen to 9.8 percent in September, the highest level in 26 years. Employers in the United States are abbreviated 263 thousand jobs in the past month, which significantly exceeded analysts’ expectations. Meanwhile, factory orders unexpectedly fell in August by 0.8 percent on a monthly basis, with expectations for a monthly growth of 0.7%.
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