New York (AFP)
The New York Stock Exchange hesitated Wednesday at the opening on the direction to follow in the aftermath of new highs, despite better than expected results and indicators.
Around 1:45 p.m. GMT, its flagship index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, lost 0.23% to 28,182.38 points.
The Nasdaq, with strong technological coloring, gained 0.48% to 11,521.36 points.
The extended S&P 500 index rose 0.03% to 3,444.69 points.
Wall Street ended in disarray on Tuesday, the warming of Sino-US trade relations contributing to the records of the Nasdaq (+ 0.76%) and the S&P 500 (+ 0.36%) while the Dow Jones -0.21% ) was held back by Apple, Boeing and ExxonMobil.
Several information was likely to push the indices up on Wednesday, including the better-than-expected quarterly results of software publisher Salesforce (+ 17.88%) and of the outdoor and sporting goods chain Dick's Sporting Goods ( + 11.03%).
Durable goods orders in the United States for their part increased sharply in July, for the third month in a row after the April plunge due to Covid-19, increasing by 11.2%, according to data from the Department of Trade.
Other encouraging news, according to Patrick O'Hare of Briefing: Germany and France are working on the extension or creation of stimulus measures while the rate of new Covid-19 infections continues to slow in some particularly affected American states .
"Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is due to deliver (Thursday) a speech which, according to many observers, could adopt a tone that suggests further monetary easing measures," said Mr. O'Hare.
But at the same time, "market participants will also begin to wonder if there are signs of fatigue after the Nasdaq rose 14% and the S&P 500 by 11.1% since the start of the market. quarter ", adds the specialist.
On the bond market, the 10-year rate on US debt rose to 0.6965% against 0.6835% Tuesday night.
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