NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – After the smaller price slide in the middle of the week, the US stock exchanges showed no clear direction in early trading on Thursday. The corona pandemic continues to weigh on the mood, as the current situation is anything but rosy, which is also accompanied by economic concerns. At the same time, optimistic investors continue to rely on the promising data on the first vaccines and hope that the virus crisis will end soon.
At the start of trading, the Dow Jones Industrial initially fell a little more significantly. Then the best-known Wall Street index quickly contained its minus and most recently fell by 0.19 percent to 29,381.99 points.
The market breadth & P 500 fell by 0.11 percent to 3563.90 points. The technology-heavy indices of the Nasdaq stock exchanges even turned positive. The Nasdaq 100 gained 0.23 percent to 11,922.50 points.
More than a quarter of a million people infected with the virus have died in the United States since the pandemic broke out, and the situation remains alarming. The United States is still at a “dangerous point” in the pandemic, Admiral Brett Giroir told MSNBC. He belongs to the Corona working group in the White House. The schools in New York were only closed again the day before, after the 3 percent threshold for positive corona tests was exceeded in the metropolis./ck/he
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