The New York Stock Exchange reflected on Thursday the optimism generated on Wednesday by the US Federal Reserve (Fed), when it announced a new rise in interest rates, this time by a quarter of a point, to combat inflation . Wall Street has closed mixed, with slight losses in the Dow Jones, and a strong rise in the Nasdaq sponsored by the rise in Meta shares.
Facebook’s parent company has shot up 28% at the end of the session after sweetening the first drop in profits in its history with the announcement of a massive 40 billion stock reward plan, which has lost its shares, and has led the Nasdaq to rise 3.25% to 12,200.82 points. One would have to go back three months to find a similar rise in the index.
At the end of the operations on the Big Apple Stock Exchange, its main index, the Dow Jones, dropped a slight 0.11% to 34,053.94 points, while the selective S&P 500 grew 1.47% and stood at 4,179.76 points.
Among the sectors, the push of communications stands out (which gained 6.74%), followed by non-essential goods (3.08%) and technology (2.78%); on the contrary, the greatest losses are for energy (-2.52%). Among the 30 Dow Jones values, the rises of Microsoft (4.69%) Intel stand out for the second consecutive day (3.85%) and 3M (3.82%); United Health (-5.27%), Merck (-3.29%) and Boeing (-2.52%) close in red.
In other markets, Texas oil fell 0.8% and closed at $75.80 a barrel, and at the end of the trading session gold fell to $1,926.8 an ounce, the yield of the 10-year US bond rises to 3.40% and the dollar gains ground against the euro, with a change of 1,091
