(Boursier.com) — Wall Street cedes the field this Friday night to three hours of the closing, after two sessions of sharp increases. The monetary status quo of the Fed had allowed the Nasdaq to register yesterday a new summit. Now is the time to take profits, maintained tonight by the relapse of the barrel and the WTI, on the 44.7$ . The DJIA is losing 0.40% to 18.319 pts, the Nasdaq restores 0.33% to 5.322 pts, and the S&P500 fell by 0,35% 2,169 pts.
The Fed has, as expected, left its interest rates unchanged between 0.25% and 0.50% on Wednesday evening. The u.s. central Bank remains cautious and is gradually tightening its policy rate. Depending on the tool FedWatch CME Group, the probability of a monetary status quo at the end of the November meeting (the verdict on 2 November) is currently greater than 85%.
The index, flash manufacturing PMI us came in below expectations for the month of September 2016. According to Markit, this indicator stood at 51.4, versus 52 consensus of place. It translates to a meagre expansion in manufacturing activity in September in the USA.
The index of inflation expectations of the Atlanta Fed, which measures inflation expectations one year from the point of view of firms, came in at +1.9% for the month of September 2016, as against +1.8% in the previous reading.
VALUES OF the DAY
Yahoo (-1%) / Verizon (+1%). The Internet portal california, which has recently concluded the sale of its activities ‘core’ to the operator Verizon, activities including the courier, has confirmed a hacking solid. 500 million accounts have been exposed. Yahoo! explained that the hackers, acting for an entity ‘s probably related to a State’, had stolen personal information such as birth dates, email addresses, phone numbers or passwords. The banking data of users, in contrast, have not been affected, has assured Yahoo! that said it is working with the relevant us authorities on this hacking…
Facebook (-1%). The group would have overestimated the time by watching video advertisements from 60 to 80% for two years. According to an information of the”Wall Street Journal”, the group led by Mark Zuckerberg has announced on its help center to advertisers than the average time of viewing of the videos by users was inflated artificially, because it was limited only to the views of more than three seconds. “We recently discovered an error in the calculation of our measures video,” said Facebook, adding that the error had been corrected. According to the firm, this dud would have had no impact on billings. Still, advertisers have been able to incorrectly assess the performance of the video ads that they have purchased from Facebook in the past two years, says the WSJ. This may have also influenced their decisions on the budgets allocated to videos on Facebook compared to other media like YouTube, Twitter, or the tv channels.
UPS (stable) has been started in the United States the test flights of drones for deliveries of emergency medical supplies. The tests have started in Massachusetts, in a rural area. The group has appealed to CyPhy, a local manufacturer of drones with a capital of which the us giant holds a participation.
Twitter (+18%) jumps to Wall Street. CNBC believes, in fact, know that the group would converge to an assignment. There are still a few moments, and the title was expected yet sharply down in pre-session, the broker RBC with degraded its recommendation in a timing to say the least, unfortunate. Speculations are quite recurrent on a possible buyout of Twitter. According to CNBC, several tech giants, including Alphabet (Google) and Salesforce.com, had expressed an interest in the social network of San Francisco. CNBC is even estimated that Twitter could quickly receive a formal offer ! “Twitter has received expressions of interest from a number of technology companies, which consider the possibility of an offer on the social network,” said David Faber of CNBC, citing multiple anonymous sources close to the situation. According to Faber, the board of directors of Twitter would also be largely in favour of a deal. Discussions would, therefore, of the scale and “could lead to an agreement before the end of the year,” says Faber. According to his sources, the parties involved would be in particular interested in the data collected by Twitter. The Reuters news agency, also affirms this date, citing a source familiar with the matter, that Twitter would have initiated discussions with several technology companies to explore a sale.
Yum! Brands (stable). Even RBC has pulled out the folder Yum! of his list of favorites (top picks), but displays a notice always positive ‘outperformance’.
Prudential Financial (stable) is now part of the belief of purchase of the inescapable Goldman Sachs. GS considers the folder to be undervalued and expects continued growth.
Marriott (-2%), as expected, finalized its merger giant with Starwood Hotels, giving birth to a new giant of the hospitality industry. The annual savings resulting from the merger are valued at $ 250 million.
Apple (stable). The antitrust authorities of Japan would consider a potential action against the tech giant in california. In question, the domination of Apple in the local market of smartphones…
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