The NYSE has ended as it began, up on Friday, continuing its progressive movement initiated Thursday. The Dow Jones advance at the close of 0.71% to 11,858.52 points, the Nasdaq by 0.29% to 2643.67 points and the S & P 500 by 0.43% to 1279.21 points. The increase was however somewhat blurred throughout the session.
If fear of a major nuclear disaster in Japan seems to retreat somewhat, the environment remains nervous, with investors again worried about the risks of a rise in crude oil prices, while on Friday evening, Washington , Paris, London and the Arab League have issued an ultimatum to Libya. A barrel in New York is always worth more than $ 100 to 22 hours.In addition, Bahrain's continued repression and puts the gold noi pressure.
In Tokyo this morning, the Nikkei has returned 2.72%, supported by the announcement of a joint G7 intervention on the foreign exchange market to counter soaring yen. On the foreign exchange market, this decision was immediately able to return to the dollar above 80 yen in Tokyo, a day after a record at 76.36 yen. In early afternoon in Paris, the greenback was trading at 81.69 yen.
Moreover, today's big news overseas, the Fed said Friday it allowed some of the nineteen largest U.S. banks to pay back dividends or increase them, after new tests of resistance banking .
Several U.S. banks immediately announced Friday increases the compensation of shareholders, after the green light from the Federal Reserve, including JPMorgan Chase (2.42% to 45.64 dollars) to quintuple its dividend and launching a multi-year redemption shares of $ 15 billion. Wells Fargo (+1.41% to 31.80 dollars) for its part announced that it was his first quarter dividend from May to December dollars per share.
Meeting of the "Four Witches"
On the macroeconomic front there is no major indicator on the agenda of U.S. investors on Monday. The market will however be many technical movements on Friday, sitting in this so-called "four witches."An appointment is the quarterly expiration of four simultaneous types of options and futures for stocks and stock indexes.
The values listed after the close of Wall Street yesterday, the American General Mills (+1.41% to 36.64 dollars), owner of Häagen-Dazs, entered into "exclusive negotiations" to buy more of the half (51%) of the number two worldwide in fresh dairy products, French Yoplait, for over 800 million euros investment fund PAI Partners payday advances.General Mills' Yoplait is the franchisee in the United States and as such greatly expanded the brand to the little flower on the market.
Boeing (1.11% to 69.06 dollars) for its part, announced the arrival of Mark Allen, currently vice president for worldwide legal affairs as president of Boeing China, following the retirement of David Wang .
Also after the close of U.S. markets, General Motors (1.27% to 31.84 dollars) announced it would suspend production at its plant in Shreveport, Louisiana next week due to a disruption of supplies of spare parts from Japan. The other plants in North America will continue to operate normally. In addition, GM expects a 10% decline in production in Korea in March, also due to supply problems.
The Microsoft IT group (+0.08% to 24.80 dollars) has announced the dismantling of a "complex" of sending billions of spam (spam) daily on offers to buy fake drugs.
For its part, Nike (-9.23% to 77.53 dollars) has reported a net profit of $ 523 million in the third quarter increased 5% over a year and a turnover of $ 5.1 billion, up 8% excluding currency effects.
Moreover, the manufacture of the tablet 2 Apple iPad (-1.19% to 330.67 U.S. dollars) is threatened by the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which could lead to "logistical disruptions" and disruptions in component supply, according to research firm iSuppli IHS.
Groupon valued 25 billion
The platform for financial exchanges and Nasdaq Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) are struggling to agree on an offer on the cons exchange group NYSE Euronext, under a merger with Deutsche Boerse, said Thursday the Wall Street Journal.
Also note, the U.S. computer security firm RSA announced Thursday that hackers had penetrated into its systems and retrieve information that might allow them to circumvent the defenses of companies equipped with its technology.
Finally, according to The New York Times, the American website Groupon, which enables the faithful to receive coupons on their purchases, could be valued near $ 25 billion at its upcoming IPO, a higher price that Google had obtained at the time of its development.The new rising star of the internet, dismissing the fall of an offer to buy this same Google $ 6 billion, could make his case for IPO this spring, the paper said on its website.