PARIS (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange opened on Wednesday on a generally stable note, continuing to take advantage of the reflux of geopolitical tensions with the agreement of truce between Iran and Israel, even if it remains fragile.
In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones index lost 4.87 points, or 0.01%, at 43,084.15 points.
The larger Standard & Poor’s 500 increased by 13.52 points, or 0.22%, to 6.105.70 points, approaching its record.
The Nasdaq Composite takes 112.53 points, or 0.56%, to 20,025.06 points.
Despite the fragility of the Israeli-Iranian ceasefire negotiated by the American president, Donald Trump, the investors remain optimistic over the long term, as evidenced by the decline in the VIX index of fear to Wall Street, fallen around the 17 points.
“Many of our main concerns, at least for the moment, have become neutral compared to the opposite winds (…) which places us in a position where we are going to adopt an wait -and -see attitude,” said Art Hogan, market strategists at B Riley Wealth.
The market also monitors the latest developments at the NATO summit in The Hague, which has raised its target for 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of member countries, while Donald Trump was reassuring as to his commitment to protect the other members of the Transatlantic Alliance.
On the monetary level, investors are awaiting the hearing of the president of the American Federal Reserve (Fed), Jerome Powell, before the Senate after an intervention the day before before a commission of the House of Representatives where he said that the rate reductions could wait.
At the values, Fedex drops 4.80% after having said to anticipate a profit for the current quarter lower than market expectations in a context of volatile global demand. Its competitor UPS abandons 1.02%.
General Mills fell 1% after publishing an annual profit forecast below expectations.
BlackBerry climbs 12.2% thanks to a raising of its forecast of annual turnover.
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(Written by Claude Chendjou, with Kanchana Chakravarty in Bangalore, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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