By Christmas Randewich and Lisa Pauline Mattackal

(Reuters)-The New York Stock Exchange finished in dispersed order Thursday, only the S & P-500 finishing in the green, while investors have evaluated the progress reported in the trade negotiations between the United States and Japan as well as the potential prospects for American interest rates.

The Dow Jones index sold 1.33% to 39,142.23 points.

The wider S&P-500 took 0.13% to 5,282.70 points.

The Nasdaq Composite fell on 0.13% to 16,286.45 points.

A certain optimism has won the traders after US President Donald Trump spoke of “great progress” in trade discussions between Washington and Tokyo, the day after a clear withdrawal of the main Wall Street indices.

The head of the White House also declared before the press that he expected to conclude an agreement with China, without however giving any indications on potential negotiations between the two largest world economic powers, engaged in a trade war.

Wall Street has been shaken in recent weeks by Donald Trump’s various commercial announcements, who has given a stay for most large so -called reciprocal taxes on imports of dozens of countries, but noted customs duties targeting Chinese products – a decision to which Beijing responded with new countermeasures.

Despite its increase on Thursday, the S & P-500 is around 6% of its level of April 2, when the American president detailed customs taxes from 11% to 50% targeting dozens of countries including the main trade partners of the United States.

While there will be no session on Friday, holidays, Wall Street records a new week of decline – the third in a month.

Investors scrutinize any potential advance in the bilateral negotiations opened by Washington with dozens of countries, with the hope of having more clarity on the scale of customs duties which will actually be in force – both in terms of percentages and sectors concerned.

“The market wants Trump to announce trade agreements,” said Jake Dollarhide, Managing Director of Longbow Asset Management, in Tulsa in Oklahoma. “The market wants tangible results, and it doesn’t have them,” he added.

In addition, Donald Trump attacked Thursday to the President of the Federal Reserve (Fed), Jerome Powell, declaring via social networks that he was impatient that the latter is no longer in office and once again demanding interest rates. Jerome Powell warned Wednesday during a speech that the American president’s trade policy was likely to fuel inflation and harm economic growth. “It is known that Trump is not very happy with Powell. The question is: will he try something about this?”, Said Tom Bruce, strategist at Tanglewood Total Wealth Management, adding that to dismiss Powell of his functions – a hypothesis mentioned by Trump – would harm confidence in the American markets.

Data published Thursday show that weekly unemployed registrations in the United States have backed down, suggesting that the conditions are stable on the labor market in April, even if uncertainty surrounding customs duties makes companies reluctant to recruit.

Eight of the eleven major sectors of the S & P-500 ended up on Thursday, at the forefront of which energy, which took 2.3%.

On the values ​​side, Netflix has progressed upstream of the publication of its quarterly results, after the fence.

On the other hand, Alphabet declined following a judgment rendered by an American federal court according to which Google, whose group is the owner, illegally dominated two online advertising markets.

Note, also, the leap of 14% of Eli Lilly, which reported very positive trials concerning an experimental treatment promoting weight loss.

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