Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client October 24. On Friday, US Eastern Time, the three major US stock indexes opened slightly higher and then quickly dropped. The Dow fell approximately 0.75% during the session; nearing the end, the Nasdaq pulled up and turned up.

  As of the close, the Dow fell 28.09 points, or 0.10%, to 28,335.57 points; the Nasdaq rose 42.27 points, or 0.37%, to 11548.28 points; the S&P 500 index rose 11.90 points, or 0.34%, to 3,465.39 points.

  This week, the Dow fell 0.95%, the Nasdaq fell 1.06%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.53%.

Among them, the Dow and the S&P 500 both ended their three-week weekly gains.

  Source of Dow's all-day trend: Wind

  On the disk, most of the major US technology stocks closed up. Facebook rose 2.40%, Google rose 1.64%, Amazon rose 0.88%, Netflix rose 0.63%, Microsoft rose 0.62%; Apple fell 0.61%.

Intel plummeted 10.58%. The company announced an unexpected drop in sales of data center chips due to the company's sales to corporate and government customers halved during the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

  The majority of financial stocks went red. JPMorgan Chase rose 0.91%, Berkshire Hathaway rose 0.63%, Morgan Stanley rose 0.21%, Bank of America rose 0.16%, Wells Fargo rose 0.15%, Citigroup rose 0.02%; Goldman Sachs fell 0.17 %.

  Popular Chinese concept stocks were mixed, with Leju up 21.46%, Good Future up 5.94%, Alibaba up 1.19%, Baidu up 0.81%, JD.com up 0.04%; Tuniu down 11.54%, Shell down 7.56%, NetEase down 1.94%, Pinduoduo fell 0.98%, and Weilai Automobile fell 0.77%.

  On the news, this week, the last debate of the US presidential election was held at 9 pm local time on October 22. This was canceled on the 15th of this month because the current president and Republican presidential candidate Trump was infected with the new crown virus. After the second debate, Trump once again engaged in a direct confrontation with the Democratic presidential candidate Biden, focusing on topics such as fighting the epidemic, American race, climate change, and national security.

  At the same time, the introduction of fiscal stimulus legislation by the United States is still deadlocked. US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin and Speaker of the House of Representatives Pelosi shirk each other's responsibilities for the stalled negotiations.

Mnuchin said, "We have made concessions. Pelosi is still doing in-depth research on many issues. If she is willing to compromise, then an agreement can be reached."

  In the global market, A-shares fell collectively on Friday. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.04% to 3278.00 points, the Shenzhen Component Index fell 2.00% to 13128.46 points, and the ChiNext Index fell 2.72% to 2600.84 points.

In the Asia-Pacific market, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index closed up 0.54% to 24,918.78 points, and the Tokyo Nikkei 255 Index closed up 0.18% to 23,516.59 points.

  European stock markets closed up collectively. The German DAX index rose 0.71% to 12,632.65 points, the French CAC40 index rose 0.99% to 4,897.27 points, and the UK FTSE 100 index rose 1.16% to 5852.81 points.

  International gold prices fell. COMEX gold futures closed down 0.06% to US$1903.4 per ounce. This week’s cumulative decline was 0.16%, marking the second consecutive week of decline; COMEX silver futures closed down 0.04% to US$24.7 per ounce, a cumulative increase this week. 1.21%.

  International oil prices fell across the board. NYMEX crude oil futures closed down 2.12% to US$39.78 per barrel, and fell 3.26% this week, marking the first drop in three weeks. US$41.62 per barrel.

The National Petroleum Corporation of Libya stated that it has lifted the force majeure of exports from major ports and the output will reach 1 million barrels per day within four weeks.

(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)