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23:00 – Leading Wall Street indices closed in a positive trend tonight as the Dow Jones and S&P 500 continued to break records: the Dow Jones rose 0.3% and recorded a consecutive Friday of gains and the S&P 500 strengthened 0.1% and closed the record for the fifth time. -70 in 2021. NASDAQ decreased its value by 0.1%. Highlights in trading: AMD shares fell 3.2%, Micron shares rose 3.5%.
Meanwhile, Samsung is on its way to a huge deal of more than $ 40 billion. According to reports around the world, the Korean giant is in negotiations with the pharmaceutical giant Biogen and may buy it for $ 42 billion. Biogen’s share jumped 9.5% tonight.
21:10 – “Dow Jones is up 0.2% on a consecutive Friday of gains, Nasdaq is down 0.2% and the S&P 500 is up 0.1%. Investors are waiting to see what the annual rises in the stock markets will be. Many times the leading indices strengthen during the so-called period.” Santa Claus Rally “- The last five days of December and the first two days of January. Nike shares lead the Dow Jones up 1.4%, Boeing is down sharply and down 0.9%. Strengthens by 3%.
WTI oil is up 0.7% and is trading at $ 76.5 a barrel, while Brent oil is up 0.2% at $ 79.2 a barrel.
20:50 – Gold weakened today by 0.3% which is $ 5.1 and the price of the precious metal was set at $ 1,805.8 per ounce.
20:00 – “It looks like the rally is very likely to bring the S&P 500 to a year-end at an all-time high, or at least very close to a high,” said strategist Scott Ren of Wells Fargo. Although the S&P 500 index fell slightly yesterday, today’s rise returns it to its peak.
19:00 – Closing Europe – The Dax index in Frankfurt was down 0.7%, the Paris Kak was down 0.3% and the Potassium Index on the London Stock Exchange was up 0.7%.
16:30 – The New York Stock Exchange opens the day with quiet movements. The Dow Jones Industrial Average maintains its opening level, with the S&P 500 up 0.1% and the Nasdaq up 0.2%.
Tesla climbs 0.4% after founder Alon Musk finished exercising the options given to him in 2012.
14:30 – Ahead of the opening of trading in New York, the contracts for the Dow Jones and S&P 500 are not really moving – the contracts for Nasdaq are up 0.1%. Apple without significant movement – the stock fell 0.6% yesterday (after 4 days of gains) And it’s still close, of course, to the $ 3 trillion threshold (currently at $ 2.94 trillion).
The 10-year US bond yield rises by 2 basis points to 1.50%.
14:00 – Alon Musk exercised all the options granted to him in 2012 – after yesterday he exercised the last tranche, 1.6 million shares, at a price of $ 6.24 per share, against a market price of $ 1,088.47. In order to pay the required tax he simultaneously sold 934,090 shares.
Since the Twitter poll he issued on the possible sale of 10% of the Tesla shares he owns, Musk has sold about 10.3 million shares as part of the exercise of the options – and for the purpose of the tax payments involved in the exercise – and an additional 5.4 million regardless of the exercise.
In total, he sold 15.7 million Tesla shares he has owned since the referendum, about 9.2% of the shares he held, thus coming very close to the goal he set in the tweet, of selling 10% of the Tesla shares he owns.
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12:10 – British industrialist Spirax-Sarco Engineering is currently leading Potsy 100 shares, up 3.4%.
11:30 – Closing in Asia: Nikkei was down 0.6%, Hang Seng was down 0.8%, Shanghai and Kospi were down 0.9%. ,
10:40 – Opening of the European Trading Day: The London Stock Exchange returns from the extended Christmas break with a 0.9% rise in Potsey, Dax is down 0.1%, Kak is up 0.1%.
Prominent in London: Rolls-Royce jet engine maker up 3.3%; Lloyds rises 1.6% at the head of the local banking sector; Sports retailer JD Sports Fashion is up 2.9%.
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9:00 – Morning Goods: Brent is up 0.4% at $ 79.3 a barrel, WTI is up 0.3%, at $ 76.2 a barrel; Gold is down 0.2% to $ 1,806.50 an ounce.
7:20 – Retreat in Asian markets this morning, following a mixed evening on Wall Street (Dow Jones up 0.3%, Nasdaq down 0.5% and S&P 500 down 0.1%): Nikkei and Shanghai down 0.8%, Hang Seng down By 0.9% and Cospi weakened by 1%.
Security forces in Hong Kong raided the offices of pro-democracy newspaper Stand News this morning and arrested six of its employees on suspicion of “conspiracy to publish incitement material”. The newspaper, founded in 2014 as a non-profit organization, is the latest significant produtocratic publication to operate in Hong Kong following the closure of the Apple Daily tabloid earlier this year.
In New York at this early hour, contracts for NASDAQ are up 0.3%, for the S&P 500 are up 0.1% and for Dow Jones without moving.
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Tokyo Stock Exchange
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