New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange traded in disarray Monday at the start of a week rich in company results, and economic indicators without counting a meeting of the Monetary Committee of the American Central Bank (Fed).

At 3.15 p.m. GMT, the Dow Jones lost 0.30% and the Nasdaq, with a strong technological coloring, advanced 1.29%.

The extended S&P 500 Index rose 0.42%.

On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 0.57% to 30,996.98 points, as did the S&P 500, which lost 0.30% to 3,841.47 points.

The Nasdaq hit a new high of 13,543.06 points, thanks to a small increase of 0.09%.

"The session gets off to a mixed start as a heavy week begins, laden with earnings from key tech companies and the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting," Schwab analysts said.

The next days are expected in particular, the results of heavyweights like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft as well as Boeing and Tesla.

The markets will watch the press conference of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday.

Thursday, they will have to digest the first estimate of the Gross Domestic Product for the last quarter of 2020.

At the same time, markets were "concerned about headlines suggesting Joe Biden's $ 1.9 trillion stimulus package is meeting resistance from both parties and that travel restrictions will be imposed on non-American citizens coming in. South Africa, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland in an attempt to keep new variants of the virus at bay, "said Patrick O'Hare of Briefing.com.

At 3.15 p.m. GMT, the American pharmaceutical laboratory Merck lost 0.80% after announcing Monday that it was interrupting work on two potential vaccines against Covid-19, including one developed in collaboration with the Pasteur Institute in France, estimating that they were less efficient than the competition.

Stock market soap of the moment, the American chain of video game stores GameStop still climbed 38% above 89 dollars after having ignited Friday (+ 51% in one session) under the effect of speculative mechanisms, unrelated to the actual performance of the company.

Monday morning in the first minutes of the session, the quotation of the title which climbed to 100 dollars was briefly interrupted due to strong demand.

Among the big names in tech, Apple jumped almost 4%, leading the Nasdaq.

In the bond market, the 10-year yield on Treasuries gave some ground to 1.0584% from 1.0855% on Friday.

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