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US Indices Completed session without a single direction, as markets continue to respond to news about the spread of coronavirus – the main driver of the movement of indicators during the holidays, reports CNBC.
The benchmark of blue chips Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.24% to 36,388.63 points , recording the fifth consecutive positive session
The wide gauge S&P 500 decreased by 0.13 percent to 4785 points.
The technological indicator Nasdaq Composite reported a decline of 0.60 percent to 15,775.67 points.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus may has led to congestion in the health systems of many countries, although early research suggests that this option leads to milder illness, AFP reported
China has already imposed a lockdown on hundreds of thousands of people. Germany has also reintroduced stricter restrictions to stem new coronavirus infections.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the 7-day period ending December 25, the omicron variant accounted for 58.6% of the new cases in the country. This is more than 14 percentage points more than in the previous week.
US health services have reduced the requirement to isolate coronavirus-infected people from 10 to 5 days, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that people with coronavirus are most contagious 2 days before the onset of symptoms and 3 days after.
Against the background of this news, shares of Pfizer fell by 1.99%, while those of Moderna deleted 2.3% of their value.
At technology companies the price of the shares of Microsoft and Apple decreased by 0.31% and 0.58%, respectively
Among the chip manufacturers, the shares of Nvidia fell by 2.01%, and those of Intel deleted 0.35 percent.
For the whole year, the S&P 500 is ahead by more than 27 percent, while growth for the Nasdaq reaches 2 3%. The annual increase for the Dow is 19%.
In bond markets, the yield on 10-year and 30-year-old US government bonds increased to 1.484% and 1.906 percent, respectively
(The dollar index recorded an increase of 0.05% to 96.14 points.
On the oil markets the price of Brent increased by 0.43% to $ 78.94 per barrel, while that of WTI advanced 0.54% to $ 75.98 per barrel.
Gold rose 0.2% to 1811.70 dollars per troy ounce.
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