New York (AFP)
The New York Stock Exchange started the week on the right foot on Monday, once again driven by major technology stocks and ignoring the surge in cases of coronavirus in the United States.
Its flagship index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, rose 1.78% to 26,287.03 points.
The highly technological Nasdaq gained 2.21% to 10,433.65 points, closing for a record for the third session in a row.
The broader S&P 500 index, which represents the 500 largest companies on Wall Street, appreciated 1.59% to 3,179.72 points and is now moving to just over 200 points from its record, reached in February.
The New York square was returning from an extended weekend of three days after closing Thursday evening in preparation for the American national holiday.
Despite record infections in the country, with nearly 40,000 new cases identified in the past 24 hours, the indices on Wall Street have not faltered.
"The market is showing more resilience than I had anticipated," concedes Karl Haeling, market specialist for LBBW bank.
"I didn't think we would be immune to the bad numbers on the virus. But as bad as the numbers are, there is no desire to shut down the economy again," he added.
As often in recent weeks, several American tech giants have carried the stock market at arm's length.
This is particularly the case of Amazon (+ 5.77%), whose action reached a new high and exceeded for the first time the symbolic threshold of 3,000 dollars by closing at 3,057.04 dollars.
The title of the streaming platform Netflix (+ 3.55%) also ended at a record, at 493.81 dollars.
Among the indicators, activity in services in the United States returned to growth in June, after two months of contraction under the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the index of the professional association ISM published Monday.
On the bond market, the 10-year rate on the American debt increased, settling at 0.6792% around 20.20 GMT, against 0.6693% Thursday evening.
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