Fear of new lockdowns shaped trading on the US stock exchanges on Friday. Investors got their money safe and parted with the stocks, which got under the wheels in the first Corona waves. That brought the index of the technology exchange Nasdaq a record high: The barometer closed on Friday for the first time above the mark of 16,000 points. Technology stocks have been high on investors' buy lists - and are especially bought when interest rates are low. The Nasdaq index closed trading at 16,057 points, 0.4 percent firmer than on Thursday. On a weekly basis, it gained 1.24 percent. The Dow Jones index of the standard values, however, lost 0.8 percent to 35,602 points.

"It is a normal time to reduce risk now," said Jay Hatfield, chief of Infrastructure Capital Management in New York. “In this case there is so much money on the market that it doesn't go far down - safe havens benefit. At the moment everything revolves around Covid-19. ”Tom Mantione, an expert at UBS Private Wealth Management, referred to the lockdown in Austria. "If Germany decides on an extensive lockdown, it would once again have an impact on the supply chain."

At the same time, market participants were concerned that the US Federal Reserve might take more action against rising inflation. Accordingly, it went down for bank stocks: A corresponding index fell, following the decline in yields on the bond market, which was again in greater demand as a safe haven. Airlines and travel stats were also on the sales list. The decline in the price of oil weighed on the stocks of multinationals, in the Dow the Chevron papers were among the biggest losers with a loss of 2.2 percent. Things went up for Facebook, which gained two percent. Apple gained 1.7 percent and marked a record high. Investors assume that the iPhone manufacturer will meet with high demand on "Black Friday" next week.The shares of the chip manufacturer Nvidia profited from the quarterly figures and closed 4.1 percent in the plus. In Frankfurt, the Dax was 0.4 percent weaker at 16,159 points from trading.