Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Party on Wall Street: for the first time in its history, the Dow Jones surpassed the 20,000 points – Ambito.com

For the first time in its more than 130-year history, the index Dow Jones Industrial New York surpassed today the mark of 20,000 points.

The day was closed in the 20.068,51 points with an escalation of 155,80 units, that is to say, 0,78%, for the persistent upward trend in the industrial papers.

With this, the main us based stock market index continued its uptrend after the election victory of the current president Donald Trump.

analysts had long been waiting for this record, because on several occasions, the Dow Jones had disturbed the mark.

The analysts believe they have overcome the great uncertainty for the political economy of Trump, who dominated the exchanges in the last few weeks, and the recent decisions of the republican seemed to boost the value of many shareholders.

At the beginning of the week, Trump made reality their advertisements and canceled U.s. participation in trans-Pacific Economic partnership (TPP). And on Tuesday revived two controversial projects of oil pipelines that had been blocked by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that brought up the values of the sector oil companies such as Chevron or ConocoPhillips.

in Addition, the market was in turn spurred by the publication of provisional results, that in the majority of cases yielded positive data.

For example, the amazing benefits of aviation by Boeing in 2016, encouraged the actions of which he is a heavy weight in the Dow Jones at around 1.5%.

the prudence of The Tuesday, left today to greater trading activity, which is promoted the selective index S&P500 and the technology index Nasdaq to record levels.

The Dow Jones Industrial average, which combines the values of 30 major corporations that are publicly traded in the united States, was first published in 1896.

Represents important companies in sectors across the economy, such as financial services, retail, industry, energy, technology or media.

In today’s session, almost all sectors closed higher, led by financial (1,19 %), the technological (1,09 %), industrial (0,98 %), energy (0,76 %) or of raw materials (0,28 %), while just down the telecommunications (-0,08 %).

Boeing (4,24 %) led losses in the Dow, ahead of Caterpillar (1,98 %), Apple (1,57 %), JPMorgan Chase (1,55 %), Goldman Sachs (1,53 %), IBM (1,31 %), General Electric (1,23 %), Johnson & Johnson (0,93 %) or DuPont (0,82 %).

on The other side of the table only ended at the low-Procter & Gamble (-0,80 %), Walmart (-0,77 %), Verizon (-0,70 %), American Express (-0,70 %), United Technologies (stood at-0.56 %), Home Depot (-0,42 %) and Merck (-0,21 %).

For its part, the european stock markets closed down Wednesday on the rise, influenced by Wall Street, which was optimistic with the first economic measures of the u.s. president Donald Trump.

London gained 0.2% and closed at 7.164,43 points. Frankfurt climbed 1.8% and ended at 11.806,05 points. Paris advanced by 1% to 4.877,67 points. Milan rose by 0.4% to 19.582 points. And Madrid climbed by 1.7% and closed at 9.549,30 points.

it is Worth noting that the market for San Pablo not operate this Wednesday be a public holiday, so there will be no stock information or exchange of Brazil.

• for Tokyo

The major Exchanges of the Asia-Pacific region closed the day with a majority of increases in its values, according to the news agency Bloomberg.

The index Nikkei of the Tokyo stock exchange rose by 1.4% driven by data that showed that annual exports of the country rose in December for the first time in 15 months.

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