Money News: Nine Top World Markets, Including DOW, Close Up

The Dow Jones Industrial Average along with the top nine world markets, the NASDAQ and S&P500 all had a strong week, gaining enough momentum, in the respectable index to end the week on a strong with the DOW climbing above the 17,000 point record set over one month ago.

 

The DOW finally closed up, this week, in heavy trading the markets after opening the week at 17, 083.42, remained above 17,000, hitting a stride that moved it steadily up to close at 17, 098.45 for a net gain of +18.88/+0.11%.

Big winners for the week include Coco-Cola (+0.70/+1.74%) trading with a closing price of $40.88 per share, Microsoft (+0.55/+1.23%) closing at $45.43 per share, Home Depot at $93.50 per share up +0.99/+1.07% and Verizon at $49.82 per share up +0.41/+0.83%, and Goldan Sachs Group at $117.11 per share up (+1.46/+0.82%).

Losers include United Technologies (-1.13/-1.04%), Visa Inc (-2.08/-0.97%), Wal-Mart Stores Inc (-0.40/-0.53%) and McDonald's Corp (-0.42/-0.45%).

Active on the DOW include Microsoft Corp in light trading moved 21.61M shares, Cisco Systems 17.97M shares in light trading for a net gain of +0.56%, Intel Corp moved 32.31M shares in light trading for a net gain of 0.78%, General Electric Co, also in light trading moved 21.92M shares for a loss -0.12% to $25.98 per share.

The NASDAQ continued its upward movement with another strong showing and closed up 4580.27 up +22.58/+0.50% holding steady through a fluctuating week.

The S&P 500, ran alongside the DOW and NASDAQ, gaining almost all the previous week's loss, fell slightly closing slightly up at 2003.37, with a gain of +6.63/+0.33%.

World Markets

The world economy rebounded this past week with nine of the ten major world markets, Canada's S&P TSX Composite, the Dow Jones Industrial Average of the U.S., Mexico's IPC, London's FTSE 100, Germany's DAX, CAC 40 of France, the SENEX of India, the Hang Seng Index and the Shanghai Composite all closing up making Japan's Nikkei 225, the only global market to close down over the past week.  

Nikkei 225

While the world markets recovered the Japanese Nikkei 225 was the only holdout finally recovered and the market soared throughout the week as the uncontrollable spin finally came to a stop. The market began the week strong, steadily gaining. August 27, Wednesday, the Nikkei took a dive and was not able to regain the momentum even in heavy trading the Nikkei 225 still closed down at 15, 424.59 with a loss of -35.27/-0.23%. 

Big winners for the week include SOFTBANK Corp (+244.00/+3.36%), Pacific Metals Co., Ltd (+13.00/+3.05%) and Furukawa Electric Company (+5.00/+2.28%).

Losers include DOWA Holdings Co (-24.00/-2.51%), Sumitomo Realty & (-102.50/-2.48%), Nippon Sheet Glass (-3.00/-2.36%), Mitsui Chemicals Inc (-7.00/-2.23%).

Movers on the Nikkei include Unitika Ltd in strong trading moved 40.04M shares to close down for a gain of +2.22% to close at ¥46.00 per share, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial, in medium trading at 37.22M share to close down at ¥598.20 per share for a net gain of +0.22% and Nippon Steel and Sum in medium trading at 36.04M shares to close down at ¥294.40 per share for a net loss of -1.47%.

FTSE 100

London Markets rallied throughout the week, mirroring the world markets, beginning the week at 6805.80 and the FTSE 100 moved steadily throughout the week and closed up 6819.75 a net gain of +13.95/+0.20%.

Big winners in the FTSE 100 include Fresnillo PLC (+21.50/-2.29%), AstraZeneca PLC (+87.50/+1.95%), RSA Insurance Group (+8.60/+1.91%) and St. James Place PLC (+13.00/+1.85%).

Losers include Tesco PLC (-16.35/-6.64%), Morrison (Wm) Suppliers (-9.40/-5.03%), Sainsbury (J) PLC (-13.20/-4.35%), and CRH PLC (-29.00/-2.03%).

Active on the FTSE 100 includes Lloyds Banking Group moved in heavy trading  82.28M shares to close at €76.27 closing down -0.01%, Vodafone Group PLC strong trading moved 56.40M shares closing at €206.75 down +0.29% and HSBC Holdings PLC selling at €652.00 in light trading at 38.89M, for a net gain of +0.77%.

Hang Seng Index

The Hong Kong Markets rallied mirroring the top global markets and after huge gains over the past week evened out. Opening the week at 24,748.19 the Hang Seng stayed steady throughout the week and closed up at 24,742.06 with a net of gain of +1.06/+0.00%

Index movers on the Hang Seng Index include China Unicom (Hong Kong) (+0.48/+3.60%), CNOOC Ltd (+0.44/2.91%), CITIC Pacific Ltd (+0.36/+2.45%), Lenovo Group Ltd (+0.24/+2.07%).

Active trading on the Heng Seng Hong Kong Index includes China Construction Bank in heavy trading 180.13M shares down slightly to HK$5.76 with a net loss of +0.17%, CNOOC Ltd in moderate trading of 105.00M shares closing up at HDK$15.58 with a net gain of +2.91% and Bank of China Ltd in heavy trading moved 297.08M shares closing at HDK$3.60 with a loss of +0.28%.

Losers for the week include Power Assets Holding down (-1.80/-2.49%), Want Want China down (-0.23/-2.34%) and Sands China Ltd (-0.85/-1.66%).

 

Source: Bing Finance

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