The U.S. equity markets ended little changed despite the publication of statistics reflecting improved employment situation in the United States, pending confirmation of these figures on Thursday.
The Dow spent the session flirting with the threshold of 17,000 points, while the S & P 500 approached that of 2000, two psychological levels that limit the temptation to spend frankly stakeholders to purchase.
According to the firm ADP, the private sector employed 281,000 people in June, an unprecedented volume since November 2012 and well above the expectations of economists had expected, according to Reuters, on increased 200,000.
These figures bode well when are expected Thursday, official estimates to be delivered by the Department of Labor with a day early because of the celebration the day after the American national holiday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 U.S. took 0.12%, 20.17 points to 16 976.24, the Standard & Poor's 500 benchmark fund managers, was awarded 0.07%, 1 30 points to 1,974.62 and the Nasdaq, with high technological weight, dropped 0.02%, 0.9 percentage points, to 4,457.73. For the Dow Jones and the S & P 500, it is a new high-end.
"The chances of exceeding 17,000 shortly are quite high, but we hesitate to make ambitious paris before the publication of figures (official) employment, especially in such an illiquid market," said Jim McDonald , chief strategist at Northern Trust Global Investments. "It is logical that there is some consolidation after yesterday's gains."
Values, the utilities sector underperformed other segments, some investors holding that the impact of economic improvement will be felt on the interest rate which will reduce the attractiveness of the sector, traditionally defensive. The sector index yielded 1.96%.
Rackspace Hosting jumped 6.31% to 35.88 dollars after information that TechCrunch reported that the service provider for cloud computing may seek to delist and he chatted with a capital fund investment to finance the operation.
GoPro has its dropped 13.85% to 42.04 dollars after finishing yesterday at $ 48.80, a level more than double its introduction during last week side.
JPMorgan Chase has remained very surrounded after its CEO Jamie Dimon had announced that he was diagnosed with throat cancer at an early stage, while ensuring that it will continue its activities as long as his last treatment. The stock ended down 1.04% at $ 59.97.
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