Wall Street in positive territory, Trump in pressing on interest rates

New records in New York post election and Fed optimism continues

(Finance) – Wall Street continues the upward session, with the Dow Jones which advances to 44,516 points, continuing the positive series that began last Friday; On the same line, theS & P-500 It advances fractionally, reaching 6,104 points and remaining near the historic tops.

Without direction the Nasdaq 100 (-0.13%); slightly positive theS & P 100 (+0.28%).

Utility (+1.17%), industrial goods (+1.10%) e healthcare (+0.98%) In good light on the S&P 500 price list.

Eyes on the intervention of Trump al World Economic Forum of Davos. The president has varied on various issues, from interest rates, to commercial relations between the United States and China and internal energy policy. In particular on interest rates, Trump has announced that he will ask that “they go down immediately and in the same way they should go down all over the world”. Attention now shifts to the Federal Reserve that will meet next week.

The American president has also put pressure on oil prices declaring that he will ask Saudi Arabia to lower the price of crude oil and reaffirming the commitment to accelerate US energy production.

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