On Friday, February 5, the main stock indexes of the United States after mixed data on the labor market, and amid concern about budget deficits, a number of European countries by the middle of Trade showed a negative trend.
For example, the U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in January from 10% to 9,7%, while the expected increase to 10,1%. Employment in non-agricultural sector during the same period, at the same time, decreased by 20 thousand against expected to increase by 5 thousand
fears about the creditworthiness of a number of Eurozone countries continued to have a weighty pressure on the shares and make the overall uncertainty.
In the middle of trades 20:22 MSK barometer of blue chips, the Dow sank to 0.42% to value 9 960.25 points, while the more “wide” SP 500 index weakened by 0.46% to Tier 1 058.21 points. The index is fairly high-tech stocks slackened Nasdaq 0.05% to a value of 2 124.38 points.
reduction of employment in non-agricultural sector impacted primarily on the securities industry. For example, General Electric shares were easier on 2,68%, while Boeing lost 1.77%.
Quotes insurer Aetna grew by 1.71%, despite the fact that the company reported profit declines 4 quarters up to the level of $ 165.9 million, or 38 cents a share, while analysts expected value of 42 cents.
Paper supermarket Nordstrom slipped to 4.41% after Goldman Sachs analyst downgraded the shares to the level of “neutral”.
Quotes meat producer Tyson Foods went counter to the overall dynamics of the market and soared 5.72%. Quarterly profit of the company reached a value of $ 160 million, or 42 cents per share, against the projected value of 18 cents per share.
high-tech sector with output data to reduce the level of unemployment in the country also felt much more confident the remaining papers.
For example, the producer iPhone Apple shares added 0.9%, chip maker Intel rose 1.37%, and the search engine Google strengthened by 0.48%.
Futures for petroleum of mark Light at 20:23 Moscow time haggling with a decrease to 3.21% to $ 70.79 a barrel. Gold prices sank to 1.14% up to $ 1 050.9 per troy ounce, while the rate of EUR /USD pair weakened by 0.75% to $ 1.362 per euro, and the pair USD /JPY rose by 0,29% to 89 29 yen per dollar.
An attempt to pass an important support level at 1,390 points, which failed last week, ended his breakdown at this
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