Wall Street opened this Friday in green and the Dow Jones Industrialsits main indicator, rose a very slight 0.02%, after the latest employment figures in the US were released, which sent ambivalent signals but were well received.
Three minutes after the trading floor opened, the Dow Jones stood at 39,277 points, and the selective S&P 500 rose 0.19%, to 5,235 points.
The composite index of the Nasdaq market, where the main technology companies are listed, was the one that rose the most, 0.43%, up to 16,349 units.
The February employment figures reported today indicate, on the one hand, that there has been a net creation of employment of 275,000 jobs – more than what the economists surveyed by the Dow Jones predicted – which gives signs of good health economical.
But on the other hand, the unemployment rate rose to 3.9%, and wage growth has been lower than expected.
“In short, people will be able to take whatever message they want from today’s report,” the analyst said. George Matthewcited by the CNBC channel-, but we think that the data has a positive bias and can provide a lot of confidence to the Fed (Reserva Federal) to consider a small adjustment in interest rates appropriate.
By sectors, the color green dominated, and in particular the profits from real estate (1.15%) and communications (1.03%); Only essential goods appeared in red (-0.73%).
Among the 30 Dow Jones stocks there were no major movements on Friday morning, and only 3M (1.82%), Salesforce (1.52%) and Goldman Sachs (1.55%) stood out among those that rose; among the losers, Intel (-0.52%). EFE (I)
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