Wall Street slightly hesitant flows back to the opening – Boursorama

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Wall Street remains very hesitant Friday morning after the big focus operation on the industry announced by the conglomerate General Electric: the Dow Jones taking 0.17% and the Nasdaq 0.14%.

Around 2:10 p.m. GMT, the index Featured Dow Jones Industrial Average took 30.93 points 17,989.72 points and the Nasdaq, dominant technology, 6.78 points 4981.34 point

The broader S & amp;. P 500, closely followed by investors, gained 0.18%, or 3.82 points to 2095.00 . point

On Thursday, the stock market had ended slightly higher very hesitant session, seeming finally rejoice in the proliferation of merger agreements: the Dow had gained 0.31% to 17,958.73 Points and the Nasdaq 0.48% to 4974.57 points.

“The major indices look set to increase their earnings over the week following the announcements of the morning in the area of ​​the economy and among companies, “noted analysts at Wells Fargo.

The US government announced that the prices of products imported into the United States had receded by 0.3% in March, they had slightly rose in February for the first time in seven months, according to figures released by the Labor Department on Friday.

As the dollar seemed engaged in a new phase of firming, Patrick O’Hare at Briefing. com, stressed that “it would be interesting to see if the high dollar amounts deter investors to buy securities multinationals because of concern for the impact on the results. Thursday it was not the case, “he noted.

In addition, two of the heavyweights of the coast, Apple, largest US market capitalization and the conglomerate General Electric, the one of the 10 largest values ​​monopolized economic news. Apple lost 0.29% to 126.19 dollars while GE progressed from 8.24% to 27.85 dollars.

Investors were particularly try to gauge the appetite for tech savvy Apple Watch, at the opening of pre-orders two weeks before the commercialization of this connected watch. But in New York and Paris we were far almost riot scenes observed during launch previous flagship products of the Cupertino company.

GE saw hailed his side’s decision to offload its GE Capital subsidiary of its real estate assets. “It looks like a smart move and adapted to the new financial landscape” , specifically commented the former head of the conglomerate Jack Welch, always respected.

The operation goes by the sale of approximately $ 26.5 billion of real estate assets, and is accompanied a new share buyback program that could rise to 50 billion. However it will push the group to pass a net charge of $ 16 billion in its accounts for the first quarter.

Among the other values, giant eBay online sales, which announced Thursday an agreement not to compete with its subsidiary PayPal payments after the session scheduled in the year, took 0.51% to 57.30 dollars.

The clothing chain Gap, whose sales in March were rose more than expected in March at constant scope, still lost 3.46% to 41.25 dollars.

The bond market was rising. The yield on 10-year Treasury ebbing at 1.928% against 1.956% Thursday evening, and that good for 30 years at 2.559% against 2.597% previously.

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