Illustration of the stock market indices
New York, 23 nov (EFE).-Wall Street ended today with new records in the Dow Jonesand the S & P 500, after comments by the Federal Reserve (Fed) that strengthen theidea that in December very likely there will be an increase in interest rates.
The idea came from the minutes of the Fed's meeting took place 1 and 2November, where it was agreed to maintain rates at current levels and they anticipated ideas that confirm the feeling that, this time, in December there will be news.
Therefore, the market, according to analysts, ignored information that would have generated more excitement if it emerged new tracks other than official comments onanother occasion that there was after the above-mentioned meeting.
The final decision will be known after the new meeting of 13 and 14 December the Fed,the last of the year, where it is also expected that the
President of the American central bank, Janet Yellen gives a press conference.
It will be a month until he assumes the Presidency of US Donald Trump, and is expected, then, more clearly in the
economic ideas that the elected ruler has been outlining since winning the election on November 8.
Today was a day that nothing was a gasp of rises that have taken place in recent days, with two consecutive dates of records in the sequencing of the Dow Jones, the selective S & P 500 and the Nasdaq market composite index.
Last enthusiasm today pushed upward to the Dow Jones, which ended at 19.083,18points, thanks to a breakthrough of 0.31%, and also the S & P 500, which was at 2.204,72 points, after gaining a 0.08% and with doubts until last minute.
But the index of Nasdaq, which yielded a 0.11% not joined the triplet.
Much of the advance of the Dow Jones was by the gain of 2.73% on Caterpillar industrial equipment group.
It
was on its own merits, not by the excellent quarterly results which announced a rival company, Deere, which won Wednesday a 11.04%.
Anyway, the New York Park was thinking today on something else: theThanksgiving, the family party in the United States, which will be held this Thursday.
On Friday they will continue operations, although with only half a day, expected processing and in the midst of the inherited sopor's binge of Turkey the day before.
Dow Jones is a stock
market index composed of 30 of the most significant actions,of all industries, except transportation and utilities, which are traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.
Although it is not official of the New York Stock Exchange index, since this is the NYSE Composite, it is the most known and used to monitor this market, the largest
in the world.
Virtually Dow Jones could be any of the indices of the firm that bears the same name, but it referred to when mentioned that fell or climbed the Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is the index Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was designed by Charles Dow in 1896, making it the oldest index used globally to reflect an average of sharesof companies public in a stock market.
their early measuring the performance of 12 companies, all them industrial, towards 1920 incorporated 8 companies more, to finally get to the 30 current in 1928. Since the index began to use is to them actions that it make up is them has called bluechips or chips blue, in analogy to the game of poker, where the chips blue are whichhave the value more high. The name reflects the quality of the companies that comprise the index, whose market capitalizations are often within the highest in the world, although this is not a requirement for listing.
It index is of property of the firm Dow Jones & Company Inc. (acquired in 2007 by the giant Media News Corp.), that publishes the daily financial and business Wall Street Journal, whose editors are who is responsible of perform modifications to the composition of the index.
To the date of the last update of this page (January 2014), the actions of the companies that it make up were
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