2010年11月26日星期五

Close: European stocks ended lower on Friday put pressure on debt crisis

The debt crisis by European, U.S. stocks ended lower on Friday. While the U.S. retail industry, "Black Friday" sales there have been some positive signs, but the European sovereign debt crisis as investors still worried.

EDT at 1:00 p.m. on November 26, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 95.28 points to close at 11,092.00 points, down 0.85%; the Nasdaq composite index fell 8.56 points to close at 2,534.56 points, down 0.34%; the S & P 500 index fell 8.95 points to close at 1,189.40 points, down 0.75%.

Plate of raw materials led by the Dow 30 industrial stocks, DuPont (DD), Alcoa (AA) and other generally lower.

U.S. stocks fell on Friday caused the reasons for sovereign debt crisis escalated in Europe, while Spain and some other countries has become Europe's weakness.

In order to eliminate the financial position of the Spanish market worried about increasingly heavy emotions, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Friday, the euro zone's fourth-largest economy, Spain "absolutely" does not need to seek assistance from the EU. But his speech with little success.

The uncertainty of the euro zone debt crisis venture capital investors to sell assets, resulting in crude oil futures prices. Gold futures prices fell below $ 1,355 an ounce. Promotion of investment preferences in the hedge, investors sought the dollar and U.S. Treasury bonds. The dollar index rose 0.7%, U.S. 10-year Treasury prices rose, the yield dropped to 2.87%.

U.S. retail in the "Black Friday" sales conditions there have been some good early signs. According to the U.S. retail federation (NRF) is expected during the holiday shopping this year, Americans will consume about 447 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 2.3% over last year. NRF's survey showed that about 138 million Americans plan to shop this weekend, while last year's figure was 1.34 million.

European stock markets ended lower on Friday. New York gold and oil futures prices.

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