NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – At the end of a good week, the New York stock exchanges initially presented themselves in a friendly manner on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial (Dow Jones 30 Industrial) rose another 0.29 percent in the first few minutes of trading to 34,506.53 points, hitting another high since December. This indicates a weekly plus of around 1.8 percent for the leading index. He had already more than made up for Wednesday’s setback – in response to signals from the US Federal Reserve for future interest rate hikes after the June break – on Thursday.
The other indices, which were already unimpressed by the Fed on Wednesday, also continued their recent good development on Friday: The broad S&P 500 gained 0.27 percent to 4437.71 points, and the technology-heavy NASDAQ 100 went it rose by 0.13 percent to 15,205.21 points./gl/ngu