NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – After the long weekend due to the holiday, rising bond yields weighed heavily on the US stock markets on Tuesday. Investors are increasingly expecting interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve due to persistently high inflation. Yields on 10-year US bonds rose to their highest level in two years – … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – After the long weekend due to the holiday, rising bond yields weighed heavily on the US stock markets on Tuesday. Investors are increasingly expecting interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve due to persistently high inflation. The yield on 10-year US bonds has risen to its highest level in two … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – After the long weekend due to the holiday, the US stock markets should start with a big minus on Tuesday. The reason for this is increasing speculation that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates due to persistently high inflation. This causes bond yields to rise significantly and equities to … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – At the start of the reporting season in the USA, the New York stock market extended its previous day’s losses on Friday. The numbers and outlook of some US financial groups were mostly disappointing. The technology stocks, which had come under strong selling pressure again the day before, did not recover … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – A sharp increase in inflation did not hurt the New York stock market on Wednesday. Consumer prices in the US rose by 7.0 percent compared to the same month last year. That’s the highest rate of inflation since 1982, but analysts were expecting it. The leading index Dow Jones Industrial ended … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – New inflation figures did not stop the recent recovery of the US stock exchanges on Wednesday. The leading index Dow Jones Industrial recently gained 0.13 percent to 36,298 points. For the market-wide S&P 500 it went up by 0.29 percent to 4727 points. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 – still at its … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – Thanks to a race to catch up in late trading, the US indices on the Nasdaq technology exchange turned positive on Monday. The Nasdaq 100 , which the fear of interest rate hikes had previously pushed it down to its lowest level since mid-October, hit the target with an increase of … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – On Monday, technology stocks on the US stock market again suffered from the expected rate hikes. The Nasdaq 100 slipped to its lowest level since mid-October. Two hours before the market closed, however, it only lost 0.92 percent to 15,449 meters. The yield on ten-year US government bonds temporarily increased to … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – On the US stock market, technology stocks once again suffered from the expected rate hikes at the start of the new week. The Nasdaq slipped 100 on Monday in early trading to its lowest level since mid-October. Most recently, it lost 2.11 percent to 15,263 points, while the yield on ten-year … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – On the US stock market, technology stocks once again suffered from the expected rate hikes at the start of the new week. The Nasdaq slipped 100 on Monday to its lowest level since mid-October. Most recently, it lost 2.45 percent to 15,210 meters, while the yield on ten-year US government bonds … Read more