{"id":129387,"date":"2018-07-02T06:16:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T10:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=129387"},"modified":"2018-07-02T06:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T10:16:56","slug":"us-stocks-close-slightly-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/07\/us-stocks-close-slightly-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"US stocks close slightly higher"},"content":{"rendered":"
July 2, 2018<\/div>
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SP500 posts second weekly loss<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

US stock indices\u00a0<\/b>extended gains Friday led by energy and materials shares.\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0added 0.1% to 2718.37, ending 1.3% lower for the week while booking 2.9% gain over quarter.\u00a0Dow Jones\u00a0<\/em>industrial average rose 0.2% to 24271.41. The\u00a0Nasdaq<\/em>gained 0.1% to 7510.30. The dollar turned sharply lower despite a rise in core personal consumption expenditures index to 2% over year in May from 1.8% in April: the\u00a0live dollar index<\/a>\u00a0data show the ICE US Dollar index, a measure of the dollar\u2019s strength against a basket of six rival currencies, fell 0.8% to 94.537 but is higher currently. Stock index futures indicate lower openings today.<\/p>\n

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European stocks end week lower<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

European stock indices\u00a0<\/b>rebounded on Friday after European Union leaders reached a deal on refugees. Both the\u00a0euro\u00a0<\/em>andBritish Pound<\/em>\u00a0turned higher against the dollar but are lower currently. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index gained 0.8%, however ending 1.3% lower for the week. The\u00a0DAX 30\u00a0<\/em>rose 1.1% to 12306. France\u2019s\u00a0CAC 40\u00a0<\/em>ended 0.9% higher and UK\u2019s\u00a0FTSE 100<\/a>gained 0.3% to 7636.93. Indices opened 0.7% – 1.2% lower today.<\/p>\n

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Nikkei stocks lead Asian indices losses<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Asian stock indices<\/b>\u00a0are mostly lower today.\u00a0Nikkei\u00a0<\/em>dropped 2.2% to 21811.93 weighed by yen rise against the dollar. Chinese stocks are falling as China’s official nonmanufacturing PMI inched higher but the manufacturing PMI slipped: theShanghai Composite Index\u00a0<\/em>is down 2.5%. Hong Kong\u2019s market was closed for a holiday. Australia\u2019s All Ordinaries Index is down 0.3% despite the Australian dollar turn lower against the greenback.<\/p>\n

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Brent\u00a0<\/a>climb persists<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Brent futures prices\u00a0<\/b>are rising today. Prices ended higher yesterday on supply concerns about US sanctions on Iranian oil and production issues at a Canadian oil sands facility: Brent for August settlement closed 0.3% higher at $77.85 a barrel on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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By IFCMarkets SP500 posts second weekly loss US stock indices\u00a0extended gains Friday led by energy and materials shares.\u00a0S&P 500\u00a0added 0.1% to 2718.37, ending 1.3% lower for the week while booking 2.9% gain over quarter.\u00a0Dow Jones\u00a0industrial average rose 0.2% to 24271.41. The\u00a0Nasdaqgained 0.1% to 7510.30. The dollar turned sharply lower despite a rise in core personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129392,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129387\/revisions\/129392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}