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Mid-day markets: Dow soars as market digests Fed announcement

By Joseph Toppe

17:04, 23 September 2021

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The Dow is surging mid-day as US benchmarks rise following the Fed’s $15bn (£10.91bn) decision on spending yesterday.

By noon EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up 528 points, or 1.5% after the index rallied 338 points Wednesday to close at 34,258.

Meanwhile, the S&P 500 was up 1.3% and the Nasdaq Composite was trading 1% higher.

On the week, the Dow and S&P are now up 0.5% and 0.4%, respectively. However, the Nasdaq is down 0.1%.

Fed decision

On Wednesday, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell did not imply the central bank would short monthly bond purchases by more than $15bn, possibly reducing the price of long-dated bonds, raising the yield, and making future profits less valuable.

On Thursday, the markets predict a measured cutback in the bond buying program.

Mid-day gains and losses

Shares for Dell Technologies were up 3.7%, shares for Blackberry were up 11%, and shares for Darden Restaurants were 5.6% better at noon.

Gold

1,960.43 Price
-0.190% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0185%
Short position overnight fee 0.0103%
Overnight fee time 21:00 (UTC)
Spread 0.30

US100

14,575.40 Price
+0.010% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0255%
Short position overnight fee 0.0032%
Overnight fee time 21:00 (UTC)
Spread 1.8

BTC/USD

26,804.25 Price
-0.670% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0616%
Short position overnight fee 0.0137%
Overnight fee time 21:00 (UTC)
Spread 60.00

Oil - Crude

72.50 Price
+1.290% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0179%
Short position overnight fee -0.0040%
Overnight fee time 21:00 (UTC)
Spread 0.03

Shares for Plug Power jumped 1.8%, shares for Roku went 2.5%, and shares for Salesforce were 6% higher.

Meanwhile, shares for General Dynamics improved 1.6% as shares for Northrop Grumman jumped 0.6%.

In the energy sector, Brent crude, the benchmark in international energy markets, ticked up 1.3% to $76.37 a barrel, while in the bond market, the yield on 10-year Treasury notes improved to 1.399%, from 1.332% Wednesday.

Global markets

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index, climbed 1.2%, and China’s Shanghai Composite Index went up 0.4%.

In Europe, the pan-continental Stoxx Europe 600 rose by 0.9%.

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