The u.s. central bank decided that as expected unanimously to keep the key rate unchanged at 0,5 – 0,75 percent on Wednesday.
the Labor market is strengthened constantly, the inflation rate is now closer to 2-prosentmålet than in the past, and the economic activity is stable. It will in the future be possible with the gradual increase of interest rates, but the central bank provides no estimates on when it would happen. It takes more time to keep up with the economic development, called it in a statement from the central bank, according to the NTB.
ADP employment figures showed that it was created 264.000 new jobs in the private sector in the united STATES in January, while, according to Reuters on average were expecting 165.000. Desembertallet was revised down by 2,000 to 151.000.
There were also several other key figures, to a greater or lesser extent, was as expected.
the Dow Jones ended up to 0.14 per cent to 19.890,94 and the S&P 500 rose marginal 0.03 percent to 2.279,55. Half of the ten most traded shares rose.
Banks were mostly up, led by Bank of America, which rose 1.1 percent and was the day’s most traded.
the price of oil was in the shock and lettoljen rose 72 cents to 53,53 dollar, while Brent rose 87 cents to the 56,45 dollars. ExxonMobil fell still 1.1 percent and Chevron fell 0.3 per cent.
the Nasdaq rose 0.5 percent to 5.642,65 aided by Apple, which rose 6.1 percent, after having put forward the quarterly figures on Tuesday that showed that the company never has sold as many iPhone as in 1. quarter of 2017. Seven of the ten most traded shares ended up.
Apple had a profit after tax of 17,9 billion dollars. The latter was, admittedly, down 2.6 per cent from the same quarter of last year, but investors were yet so pleased with rekordomsetningen and iPhone sales that they sent the stock up to 128,79 dollars.
Facebook rose 2.2 per cent to 133,23 dollars, in advance of the kvartaltallene that was presented after the stock exchange closed.
Figures showed that the had operating income of 4. quarter of 2016 on 8,81 billion dollars, up from 5.8 billion dollars in the same quarter the year before. According to Markedwatch had the FactSet estimate of 8.5 billion dollars. The company had a net profit pr. share on 1,41 dollars, up from 79 cents last year, and waited for 1,31 dollars.
the Numbers were well received and helped to lift the share price of 138 dollars, and a new all-time high for a while in etterhandelen.
AMD narrow, up 16.3 per cent on better quarterly figures than expected. The company, however, had a decrease in operating revenues of 300 million dollars, to 1,11 billion dollars in 4. quarter, but the company lost significantly less in 4. quarter of 2016 than in the same quarter of the previous year; 51 million dollars against 406 million dollars.
operating loss was $ 3 million, against an operating loss of 293 million dollars in the same quarter the year before.
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