Saturday, April 23, 2016

Nasdaq 100 registers biggest drop in two weeks with poor performance of technology – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

The US stock markets showed a mixed trend throughout the session, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S & P 500 to close positive on account mainly the good performance of energy bonds in a day of oil valuations in international markets and also with the help of banks. – who took over for maximum three months

the Dow Jones closed the session on Friday gaining 0.12% to settle at 18,003.54 points .

But the Standard & amp; Poor’s 500 slipped 0,10% to 2091.63 points, after opening to retreat slightly. The catch greatest gains were the technologies, heavily weigh on the performance of this index, which saw the sector recorded the highest daily devaluation since February 5.

The very technological index Nasdaq 100 failed to keep afloat . Closed losing 1.5% to 4474.19 points (the Nasdaq Composite gave 0.80% to 4906.22 points), after arriving to fall 2.2%. The decline on Friday was the most pronounced in the last two weeks.

Technological were this week highlighted in the presentation of the first quarter in the US accounts.

On Monday 18 April, IBM and Netflix reported its results for the first quarter of the year, which displeased the market. On Tuesday it was the turn of Yahoo and Intel and yesterday, Thursday, were Google and Microsoft to disclose to the market its quarterly numbers -. Who were also below expectations

Google – replaced on the stock exchange by the Alphabet, which owns 100% under the new operating structure announced last August 10 – and Microsoft were listed today more penalized the Nasdaq on Friday, with falls of more than 5% .

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