(Finance) – Wall Street is substantially stable, continuing the session at the levels of the day before, with the Dow Jones which stops at 43,225 points; along the same line, theS&P-500which continues the day at 5,953 points. Consolidates the levels of the day before Nasdaq 100 (-0.02%); below parity theS&P 100which shows a decline of 0.35%.
The American market is catching its breath after the rush of the day before driven by optimism for the price trend in the United States and therefore by the prospects for the Fed’s moves. The first good results that are arriving from the large American banks have also contributed to providing impetus, which kicked off the quarterly season.
However, yesterday’s progress was slowed down by the weak data on retail sales, published before the Opening Bell, which showed consumption below analysts’ expectations, in the midst of the Christmas period, below estimates. On the labor front, claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected, while import prices surprised.
On the quarterly side, Morgan Stanley announced a profit that more than doubled in the fourth quarter, while Bank of America’s quarterly was above expectations with a jump in investment banking commissions.
The sectors highlighted on the North American S&P 500 list utilities (+2.07%) e industrial goods (+1.15%). Among the worst on the S&P 500 list, the sectors fell the most secondary consumer goods (-0.78%) e telecommunications (-0.41%).
Between the protagonists of the Dow Jones, Boeing (+2.48%), Johnson & Johnson (+1.94%), Honeywell International (+1.91%) e Salesforce (+1.12%).
The worst performances, however, are recorded on United Healthwhich gets -4.64%.
They focus on sales Applewhich suffers a decline of 2.88%.
Small loss for McDonald’swhich trades at -0.97%.
He hesitates Walt Disneywhich lost 0.66%.
Al top between Wall Street tech giantsthey position themselves KLA-Tencor (+7.77%), LamResearch (+7.59%), Applied Materials (+7.18%) e ASML Holding (+6.06%).
The worst performances, however, are recorded on Texas Instrumentswhich gets -4.24%.
Sales up Tesla Motorswhich recorded a decline of 3.58%.