Close: Dow record high of 30 months
YORK January 22 morning news, U.S. stocks ended mixed Friday, with the Dow another new high of 30 months, the Nasdaq lower. GE reported strong growth in the promotion of industrial sector generally higher, offset by companies such as Bank of America, the negative effects of bad earnings.
EST at 16:00 on January 21 (Beijing time at 5:00 on January 22), the Dow Jones industrial average rose 49.11 points to close at 11,871.91 points, or 0.42%; NASDAQ gram composite index fell 14.75 points to close at 2,689.54 points, down 0.55%; Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 3.09 points to close at 1,283.35 points, or 0.24%.
Dow component, integrated industrial giant GE (General Electric) ended sharply higher. The company said late Thursday that due to soaring orders for large equipment and services, on a 51% jump in quarterly profit, beating market expectations.
earnings by GE to promote the industrial sector led the broader market. Financial and telecommunications sector also higher.
Bank of America (BAC) closed down, the banking giant announced late on Thursday, take a 2 billion U.S. dollars due to goodwill amortization of assets, the fourth-quarter loss of 1.2 billion.
but other banks share price rose, indicating that investors are not subject to the impact of U.S. bank earnings. S & P 500 Index were up regional banks generally to promote the financial sector higher.
Germany announced on Friday with the business confidence index hit a record high euro zone sovereign debt market crisis has reduced concerns about mood, the euro rose against the dollar two-month high. U.S. dollar against the euro and the yen continued to fall. Euro rose to 1.3592 against the dollar.
European stock markets closed higher on Friday. New York gold futures fell 0.4%, to close at $ 1,341 an ounce; crude oil futures fell 0.5%, to close at $ 89.11 a barrel. (Jun-)
