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NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – The most important US stock indices started trading with slight premiums on Monday after the long Easter weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial (Dow Jones 30 Industrial) was last up 0.12 percent to 34,492.25 points. The broader S&P 500 gained 0.19 percent to 4,401.07 points. The tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 gained 0.49 percent to 13,961.97 points.
Investors continued to act cautiously, experts said. China’s first-quarter data released that day were described by the market as mixed. In addition, to the surprise of experts, the Beijing central bank decided not to lower the key interest rate to stimulate the domestic economy on Friday. In the US there was little news from the economic and corporate world. In Europe, the Easter break ends on Tuesday./he
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