New York (AFP)

The New York Stock Exchange opened higher on Friday, stimulated by a good macroeconomic indicator on retail sales in the United States which reassured the economic recovery.

Around 2:00 p.m. GMT, the Dow Jones rose 0.15% to 35,038.12 points, the Nasdaq 0.16% to 14,566.21 points and the extended S&P 500 index 0.10% to 4,364.28 points .

Retail sales in the United States rose 0.6% in June from May, a figure that positively surprised the market, as analysts had forecast a decline of 0.6%.

"The market is experiencing a small rebound" thanks to this indicator, after having closed Thursday in dispersed order, explained Peter Cardillo, head of market analysis at Spartan Capital.

Even if the increase in retail sales is higher than expected, "it is not too marked", he stressed, which avoids relaunching the debate on an anticipated monetary tightening.

For Patrick O'Hare, of Briefing.com, the market nevertheless keeps in mind the resurgence of the coronavirus, with its daily share of new restrictions around the world.

Just like Wednesday and Thursday, Wall Street should still move within narrow margins, according to Peter Cardillo.

The macro and microeconomic news feed the same opposing forces at work for several days, economic recovery and good corporate results on the one hand, fears about inflation and the coronavirus on the other.

“There's also the fact that it's a summer Friday and a lot of operators could be spending their time on other things,” Patrick O'Hare wrote in a note.

Among the values ​​of the odds, the American company specializing in digital payments Square, gained 0.72% to 236.86 dollars.

Its founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, incidentally boss of Twitter, announced Thursday that Square was working on a new financial services platform based on bitcoin.

The electric vehicle maker Lordstown Motors (-0.45% to 8.85 dollars) suffered from the announcement, in a document filed with the US markets policeman, the SEC, of ​​an ongoing federal investigation into the activities of the group.

The announcement also made it clear that the SEC has asked the manufacturer for documents, as part of its own investigation.

US semiconductor maker Intel advanced 1.29% to $ 56.53.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the group was in discussions about a possible takeover of one of its competitors, GlobalFoundries, for around $ 30 billion, amid industry consolidation.

The American biotechnology company Moderna (+ 9.83% to 285.19 dollars) benefited from the announcement of its inclusion in the extended S&P 500 index. The title had crossed for the first time, the 100 billion dollars of capitalization stock market closing Thursday.

In the bond market, after briefly retreating below 1.30%, the 10-year US government bond rate recovered slightly to 1.31%.

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