The U.S. stock market should be wary about the direction to take the opening in an atmosphere remained febrile for several major events at the macroeconomic level. The index futures are predicting a slight decrease in opening markets américains.Les future on Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq 100 recoil effect, respectively, from 0.19% to 1108.70 points and 1884.25 points to 0.12%. On Tuesday, the NYSE has closed in a fragmented, divided between publications very positive company like Du Pont chemist, and the downturn in consumer confidence in July. At the end, the Dow Jones gained 0.12% to 10,537.77 points.The S & P 500 is broader, has lost him, 0.11%, to 1113.76 points and the Nasdaq fell 0.36% to 2288.25 points.
On the foreign exchange market, the euro was maintained in the morning to its best levels since two months around $ 1.30.
At the macroeconomic level, the U.S. central bank must now publish its Beige Book on economic conditions. It will be very guarded while the president of the institution, Bernanke said there is just one week before the Congress, the slow recovery, with no announcement of new funding in the economy.But it was the day Friday with the first estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) that will attract the attention of investors.
On the side of values, the telecom equipment maker Broadcom announced yesterday after the close of Wall Street quarterly profit of $ 278 million, against $ 13.4 million last year electronic check payday advance. Turnover was up 54% (+10% sequentially) to $ 1.6 billion.
Note also the biotechnology group Cephalon issued a quarterly profit of $ 89.1 million, well above expectations.
Always on the side of values, the Wall Street Journal, internet group Google is in talks with several video game publishers, in order to enlist their support for setting up a social networking service that would compete with Facebook .Some game publishers approached by Google Playdom be included, a publisher whose Disney announced the acquisition Tuesday, Playfish, bought last year by Electronic Arts, and Zynga, in which Google has already invested, it said.
For its part, the Microsoft IT group has criticized the partnership between Yahoo! Japan and Google, saying it would end the competition in the internet search in Japan and has questioned its "legality".
Also note, the oil company BP will have to "change the culture" after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, said its new CEO, American Bob Dudley, in an interview on ABC.
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