Wall Street ends week up
The U.S. stock markets ended the week on a sharp increase at the end of the session.
Already indices had opened on Friday on the rise, boosted by employment figures less bad than expected. The United States has in fact lost 36,000 jobs in February than in January and the unemployment rate the country has remained stable at 9.7% this month, according to the official report on employment released on Friday, while analysts expected a decline.
Then at 21 pm on consumer credit showed an increase of 4.96 billion dollars in January in the United States, its first increase in a year and the strongest since my mid-2008, the Federal Reserve announced Friday . In December, the credit had decreased by 4.57 billion.
In the end, the Dow Jones advanced 1.17% at 10,566 points, boosted by Alcoa (+3.2%, to 13.86 dollars), Boeing (3.74%, to $ 68) and American Express ( 3.32%, to 40.18 dollars). The Nasdaq rose 1.48% to 2326 points, while Apple announced that the iPad will be available April 3, and the S & P 500 of 1.40% to 1139 points, buoyed by the telecommunications industry.
U.S. investors have also noted the announcement by the Chinese premier who has promised a 8% growth for China this year.Thursday, Wall Street closed higher on a comfortable, supported by bearings recommendations.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), a barrel of light sweet crude for April delivery tE, P4erminé to 81.50 dollars, up 1.29 dollars compared to the previous day.
As for currencies, the euro fell sharply Friday against a dollar backed by the release of employment figures in the United States, and reassuring the operators on the strength of the recovery of the world's largest economy guaranteed approval cash loans .
General Growth resumed its ancient symbol
Among the increases to retain this Friday, Exxon Mobil (1.67% to 66.49 dolalrs) Chevron (1.74%, to 74.35 dollars) and JP Morgan Chase (2%, to 42.76 dollars).
Remarkable progress, that of InterMune, which soared 59.4% to 23.29 dollars.The regulatory authorities have indicated it will review its drug for pulmonary fibers.
Microsoft (-0.14% to 28.59 euros): the software giant said Friday it would stick to its strategy of developing the market for search engines in China, whatever the outcome of Google dispute between the Chinese government.
Blackstone (+3.77% at 14.86 euros): the investment fund is hoping to complete an initial transaction in Australia this year and also studied business in Japan and South Korea, each operation may be about 100 million dollars, said an official with the group.
Marvell Technology Group (+1.39% at 20.41 euros): the chip maker reported a 64% increase in its turnover, thanks to a recovery of expenditure within the sector, 842 5 million dollars against 842 million expected on average.
In addition, General Growth: The title of the second American owner of shopping malls start to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under its old symbol GGP3 "while the group is still under bankruptcy.