PARIS (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange opened on Thursday, with new heights for the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ, the day after the decision of the American Federal Reserve (Fed) to resume its cycle of drop in guiding rates.
In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones index is practically stable, at 46,034 points.
Standard & Poor’s 500, larger, increased by 26.26 points, or 0.40%, to 6,626.61 points.
The Nasdaq Composite takes 174.36 points, or 0.78%, at 22,435.69 points.
The Fed reduced its guiding rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday and indicated that it gradually drops its loan costs for the rest of the year, in a context of fears of a weakening of the labor market.
But its president, Jerome Powell, said that this decision had been made with regard to “risk management” and that the central bank would adopt a “meeting after meeting” approach.
This nuanced message was initially timidly welcomed Wednesday by the market which is now more enthusiastic Thursday.
Investors are currently counting on two new drops in a quarter -point rate in October and December, according to data compiled by LSEG.
A sign of the risk of the risk, the VIX index of volatility to Wall Street fell by more than 4%, at around 15 points.
The statistics of the day, showing a stronger improvement than expected of activity conditions in the Philadelphia region in September and the decline in unemployment registration last week, hardly seem to attenuate the enthusiasm of investors.
Despite a traditionally difficult month of September for actions, the three main Wall Street indices are about to display gains, stimulated by hopes on monetary policy and craze for artificial intelligence.
In values, Intel flies by 25.42%, NVIDIA (+2.70%) having announced its intention to invest five billion dollars in the semiconductor manufacturer in difficulty.
Crowdstrike advances 5.34% thanks to a recovery of the group’s price objective by at least two intermediaries.
Nike takes 1%, RBC having passed to “outperformance” on the sports supplier.
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(Written by Claude Chendjou, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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