Unsurprisingly, this is an upward bias that has emerged on Wall Street Friday after two sessions of marginal decline, followed by a near stabilization Thursday.
The main thing was to end the quarter near the summits: mission accomplished since the annual performance stood at 8.15% for the Dow, 12% for the 'S & P and 21% for the Nasdaq-100 .
The S & P 500 has gleaned 0.37% on Friday and 3.1% in March, the Dow Jones displays 0.5% and +2% over the past month.
For the record, Paris lost 2.2% during the same interval, the Euro-Stoxx 50 -2.1%, a performance differential of around 5% which is fully materialized during the last fortnight.
The Nasdaq Composite (-0.15% on Friday) seems more than ever on another planet with 4.1%, thanks to Apple as that displayed Thursday night 50% since 1 January and 11.5% in a months.
This advance has reduced this Friday with a decline of -1.7% which brings the title just below $ 600 ($ 621 against Wednesday).
Table cyclical in the U.S. has hardly participated in the firmness of U.S. indices: inflation came to 0.3% in February (0.1% excluding energy) and household spending have 'jumped' to + 0.8% while revenues increased only 0.2%.
But Wall Street did not greet these figures that far exceed the levels expected by the consensus that these 'stats' do not reflect any unexpected return of the appetite to consume but the negative impact of rising energy prices (cold snap in mid-February) and fuel (which are breaking records at the pump).
In the U.S., the margin squeeze between stagnant incomes and skyrocketing fuel which results in a severe decline in the savings rate which fell 4.3% to 3.7%: Americans are forced to dip into their reserves to cope with the rising cost of living in early 2012.
Side values, RIM (7.1%) was the main star of the day after the departure of one of its co-founders ... while the group could either transfer activities, either to sell.
Other winners of the Nasdaq values were rather defensive, like Gilead's 2.3%, 1.9% Teva, Broadcom 1.85%, 1.6% Symantec, Microchip 1.3% ,
Many folds in the distribution sector with Best Buy -4.4%, -3.7% Supervalue, Staples -2.1%, -1.9% Sears.
Micron also releases some of -3.8%, -1.7% Apple, Sandisk -1.3%, -1.1% Gogle, Amazon -1%.
The main thing was to end the quarter near the summits: mission accomplished since the annual performance stood at 8.15% for the Dow, 12% for the 'S & P and 21% for the Nasdaq-100 .
The S & P 500 has gleaned 0.37% on Friday and 3.1% in March, the Dow Jones displays 0.5% and +2% over the past month.
For the record, Paris lost 2.2% during the same interval, the Euro-Stoxx 50 -2.1%, a performance differential of around 5% which is fully materialized during the last fortnight.
The Nasdaq Composite (-0.15% on Friday) seems more than ever on another planet with 4.1%, thanks to Apple as that displayed Thursday night 50% since 1 January and 11.5% in a months.
This advance has reduced this Friday with a decline of -1.7% which brings the title just below $ 600 ($ 621 against Wednesday).
Table cyclical in the U.S. has hardly participated in the firmness of U.S. indices: inflation came to 0.3% in February (0.1% excluding energy) and household spending have 'jumped' to + 0.8% while revenues increased only 0.2%.
But Wall Street did not greet these figures that far exceed the levels expected by the consensus that these 'stats' do not reflect any unexpected return of the appetite to consume but the negative impact of rising energy prices (cold snap in mid-February) and fuel (which are breaking records at the pump).
In the U.S., the margin squeeze between stagnant incomes and skyrocketing fuel which results in a severe decline in the savings rate which fell 4.3% to 3.7%: Americans are forced to dip into their reserves to cope with the rising cost of living in early 2012.
Side values, RIM (7.1%) was the main star of the day after the departure of one of its co-founders ... while the group could either transfer activities, either to sell.
Other winners of the Nasdaq values were rather defensive, like Gilead's 2.3%, 1.9% Teva, Broadcom 1.85%, 1.6% Symantec, Microchip 1.3% ,
Many folds in the distribution sector with Best Buy -4.4%, -3.7% Supervalue, Staples -2.1%, -1.9% Sears.
Micron also releases some of -3.8%, -1.7% Apple, Sandisk -1.3%, -1.1% Gogle, Amazon -1%.



















