Wall Street opens green and Dow Jones rises 0.16 % pending energy sector |The Economist

Wall Street opened this Monday in Green and the Dow Jones of Industriales, its main indicator, rose a slight 0.16 % with an eye on the energy sector and the rise in the price of oil.

Fifteen minutes after the start of operations in the New York Stock Exchange, Dow Jones added 53.95 points, up to 34.800,20, mientras el selectivo S&P 500 avanzaba un 0,15 % o 6,42 unidades, hasta 4.397.76.

For its part, the Nasdaq market compound index, in which the most important technological are quoted, amounted to 0.18 % or 26.48 integers, up to 14.606.02.

The New York parquet dawned in red but in a matter of minutes passed to positive land, a volatility that may be due to a reduced negotiation volume.

The United States today celebrates the holiday of Columbus Day, a long weekend climax, and the markets operate normally except for treasure bonds, which is closed.

By sectors, the greatest gain was for basic material companies (0.97 %) and financial (0.52 %), the latter in the face of the quarterly results that the big banks will publish this week.

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Energy companies (0.76 %) also rose, in parallel to the crisis of this sector in Europe and Asia, which raised the price of Texas oil at this time above 81 dollars a barrel.

Experts pointed out that Goldman Sachs today cut their growth forecasts in the US for the delay in consumer spending by 2021 (from 5.7 to 5.6 %) and 2022 (from 4.4 %to 4 %).Among the 30 quotes of Dow Jones, the advance of Dow Inc (1.19 %), Walgreens (0.89 %) and Home Depot (0.86 %) highlighted.

The Merck Pharmaceutical (MSD outside the USA and Canada) rose 0.4 % after requesting the Federal Government for an emergency authorization for its pill against COVID-19.

Half dozen firms operated in red, headed by Verizon (-0.59 %) and Disney (-0.50 %).

Among the cryptocurrencies, the bitcóin shot this morning and exceeded 57.000 dollars.

In other markets, gold amounted to 1.758.10 dollars ounce and the dollar lost ground compared to the euro, with a change of 1,1576.