New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange ended a mixed session on Thursday, which saw the market introduction of the rental housing platform Airbnb.

The Dow Jones ended down 0.23% to 29,999.26, dropping below 30,000 points.

The Nasdaq, which had suffered from a bad session the day before, advanced 0.54% to 12,405.81 points.

The broader S&P 500 index fell 0.13% to 3,668.05 points.

Markets digested poor jobless claims, which climbed last week in the United States.

They posted their largest increase since the start of the pandemic in the country at the end of March, driven by the surge in Covid-19 cases which forced new restrictions on activity.

Between November 29 and December 5, 853,000 people registered as unemployed, far more than the 720,000 registrations expected by analysts.

On the front of the plan to support the American economy, the negotiations are still skidding, because, if everyone agrees on the need to act very quickly, Democrats and Republicans have still not succeeded in putting aside their deep differences.

Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, welcomed "significant progress" in the discussions, but does not rule out that elected officials spend part of their Christmas vacation under the Capitol to negotiate.

The meeting was mixed "because investors weighed the disappointing data on unemployment against the hopes of additional fiscal stimulus," said analysts at Wells Fargo.

The market also flocked to the shares of the Airbnb housing rental platform, which was the first listing, the day after the equally shattering one of the DoorDash meal delivery service (-2.25% at closing Thursday ).

The ABNB title, introduced at $ 68, finished more than double, at $ 144.71 (+ 113%).

This operation, which enabled the group to recover 3.4 billion dollars in new money, values ​​it at more than 100 billion.

Its rivals have reacted differently, like Booking (-0.11%) and Expedia (+ 1.27%).

Facebook in the red during the session ended in small decline (-0.29%) after complaints filed Wednesday by several US authorities against the Californian giant, accused of abuse of a dominant position and ordered to sell WhatsApp or Instagram.

Tesla continued its forward run, gaining 3.74% to $ 627.07.

A majority of the eleven sectors of the S&P 500, notably industrials (-0.93%), were in the red, but the energy sector, driven by higher prices for black gold, climbed 2, 93%.

The bond yield on 10-year Treasury bills fell to 0.9073% from 0.9361%.

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