Wall Street ended Friday without direction, after suffering a sudden sitting drop triggered by the announcement of a military incident in Ukraine: the Dow Jones lost 0.30%, while the Nasdaq gained 0 27%.
According to final results, the Dow Jones was down 50.67 points 16,662.91 points and the Nasdaq rose 11.93 points 4,464.93 points.
The broader S & amp; P 500 was almost unchanged, yielding 0.12 point to 1955.06
After starting the day up, the indices were sharply. driven into the red in mid-morning in New York, when Kiev announced that partly destroyed a column of Russian armored vehicles entered the day in its territory.
“This is exactly the kind of news that a Friday in the middle of summer with few participants, can only make people nervous, “said Gregori Volokhine of Meeschaert Financial Services.
If the situation degenerated into open military conflict between Ukraine and Russia, “the initial impact would be felt primarily in Europe, with a tightening of economic sanctions against Russia and automatically retaliate by” Moscow, said the fund manager. “The impact would be less important to the United States but it would help a certain fear of risk,” he added.
However, “every time we observed such motion of massive sales inspired by Iraq, Gaza or Ukraine, it never lasted very long, “qualified specialist.
In fact, the indices were then gradually erased their losses.
– Rush the bond market –
This evolution “suggests that brokers on the stock market are more sensitive to economic fundamentals as external events,” ruled Peter Cardillo of Rockwell Global Capital.
In this case, the dullness of indicators released Friday “reinforces the idea that the Fed probably will not change anytime soon the path of monetary policy,” particularly accommodating, a- he added.
While industrial production in the United States continued to rise in July for the sixth consecutive month, rising producer prices was more moderate than expected on the same period.
As for the morale of American households, declined in August, according to the first estimate of the indicator established by the University of Michigan.
These statistics are added other figures halftone on the American economy released earlier this week, as the stagnation in retail sales in July or higher than expected weekly jobless claims increase.
The bond market benefited from the rush during the session tried to less risky assets. Sign of increased demand, the yield on 10-year Treasury fell to 2.345% against 2.400% Thursday, its lowest closing level since June 2013 The 30-year bonds ended at 3.135% against 3.192% yesterday, down to a level reached since May 2013.
On the values front, the cosmetics group Estee Lauder scrounged 0.34% to 76.16 dollars. The company ended its fiscal year in style shifted 2013/2014 through accelerated pre-orders for the following year, but it remains very cautious in its earnings forecasts.
The beverage giant alcohol-free Coca-Cola rose 1.74% to 40.88 dollars. Affected by disaffection for its sodas, the group tries to build in energy drinks with the acquisition of 16.7% to $ 2.15 billion, the vitamin content specialist Monster Energy drinks, which jumped 30 48% at $ 93.49.
The media group Gannett rose 1.50% to 34.56 dollars. The investor Carl Icahn announced that it acquired a 6.6% interest in the company and supports the proposed demerger of its branch newspaper announced in early August.
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