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NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – Investors on the US stock exchanges held back after the recent records on Monday. Half an hour after the start of trading, the leading index Dow Jones Industrial (Dow Jones 30 Industrial) was down 0.20 percent at 33,733.80 points. For the market-wide S&P 500, it fell 0.15 percent to 4122.80 points. Optimistic economic expectations and the cheap money of the central bank had only given both standard value indices record highs on Friday. On the Nasdaq technology exchange, the selection index NASDAQ 100 just missed a record high – it lost 0.37 percent to 13,793.35 points at the beginning of the week.
Meanwhile, there was also positive news from the US Federal Reserve President: According to Jerome Powell, the world’s largest economy is at a turning point towards more growth. “We feel at a point where the economy is starting to grow much faster,” Powell said in an interview with US television station CBS. Powell also referred to an improvement in the situation on the American labor market./gl/he
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