Thursday, October 27, 2016

The stock exchanges down, Google up after hours – Hegnar Online

It was mixed on makrofronten Thursday and new orders for durable goods in the united STATES was weaker than expected, while the number of first-time applicants for unemployment benefits was slightly higher than expected in the previous week. The sale of bruktboliger in the united STATES rose in september.

In total, this provided no new, critical or normative impulses, but weaker results from the big companies the last few days, including Apple, have contributed to the fall on the stock exchanges.

the Dow Jones fell 0,16 percent to 18.170,84 while the S&P 500 fell 0.3 per cent to 2.133,05 Thursday. The Nasdaq fell 0,65 percent to 5.215,97.

For every stock that rose there were two shares that fell. Seven of the ten most traded shares on the Nasdaq fell, while only two of the ten most turnover fell on the NYSE.

Bank and health was in the lead, while companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Comcast fell. Tesla rose 0.9 per cent after having put forward a surprise profit after the close on Wednesday.

Alphabet put forward the quarterly figures after the stock markets closed, and reported a profit after tax of 5,06 billion dollars on revenues of 22,45 billion dollars. It was better than expected and sent the stock up over 2 per cent in early etterhandel.

Amazon fell 8 percent in early etterhandel, after the company had a net profit pr. the share of 52 cents against the expected 77 cents in 3. quarter, according to Marketwatch. The weaker than anticipated result was sharply up from 17 cents in the same quarter of last year and came on revenues that rose 29 per cent compared to 32,7 billion dollars.

After three days of decline, picked up the oil price again. Lettoljen rose 44 cents to 49,62 dollars on råvarebørsen in New York city. Brent rose 37 cents to 50,35 dollars. ExxonMobil fell 0.2 percent, while Chevron fell 1.3 percent.

10-year interest rate rose to 1,843 percent, according to Marketwatch, is the highest since 1. June.

the gold price ended up to 4.2 dollar to 1.270,8 dollars.

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