Lowest closing of 22 months in New York Stock Exchange – OBI Online

There was not much to cheer for on stock exchanges in New York Monday.

Investors sold off stocks and bought gold and bonds. This led to the largest rise in the gold price on a day in over a year, and pushed 10-year bonds down 4.5 percent to 1.76 percent and the lowest in 12 months.

S & amp ; P fell 1.42 percent to 1853.44. It is the lowest closing price for the broad index on the New York Stock Exchange since the beginning of April 2014, for nearly 22 months ago, according to MarketWatch.

The Dow Jones fell 1.1 percent to 16,027.05 and the Nasdaq fell 1.82 percent to 4283.75.

for each share that rose were more than four stocks fell on the NYSE. On Nasdaq fell more than three shares for every share that rose.

Six of the ten most traded shares on the Nasdaq fell, with Facebook down 4.1 percent to $ 99.75 and Amazon down 2.8 percent to $ 488.10.

Twitter fell 5.2 percent to $ 14.9 and new all-time low.

Microsoft fell 1.5 percent tl $ 49.41, while Alphabet was virtually unchanged. Apple rose 1 percent to $ 95.

On the NYSE fell half of the ten most traded stocks and banking shares got a beating since low interest rates and increased credit have boosted concerns about bank balance sheets in the past, according to MarketWatch.

Bank of America today most traded and fell 5.25 percent, while JP Morgan ended down 2.1 percent and Wells Fargo fell 2.8 percent.

Oil prices were under pressure and light crude fell $ 0.8 to $ 30.12. Brent fell $ 1 to $ 33. ExxonMobil and Chevron still ended up with respectively 1.35 and 1.75 percent.

Full so good went there for Chesapeak Energy, which fell 33.3 percent, and Transocean, which ended down all 7.1 percent.

There was also bad news for activist investor Carl Icahn, who according to MarketWatch had to a loss of $ 100 million, equivalent to 860 million, the two shares Monday.

for those who have invested in gold in the past it went the opposite way. Gold prices rose nearly $ 33 to $ 1,190.