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US stocks close mixed amid falling healthcare shares
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IANS | 10 Sep, 2019
US stocks closed mixed on Monday, as the market was weighed on declining
healthcare stocks, yet supported by investors' optimism about potential
interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve.
The Dow Jones
Industrial Average increased 38.05 points, or 0.14 per cent, to
26,835.51. The S&P 500 fell 0.28 points, or 0.01 per cent, to
2,978.43, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 15.64 points, or 0.19 per cent, to 8,087.44.
Shares
of AT&T rose nearly 1.5 per cent, after US hedge fund Elliott
Management took a stake of $3.2 billion in the US telecommunications
giant.
Elliott Management said in a letter to AT&T that it
plans to help the telecom firm "improve its business and realize a
historic increase in value."
More than half of the 30
blue-chip stocks in the Dow extended gains around the closing bell, with
shares of the widely-watched trade barometer Caterpillar up over 3.7
per cent, the best performers in the tally.
The healthcare
sector posted the biggest losses of 0.92 per cent around market close,
leading the six laggards of the 11 primary S&P 500 sectors.
Investors
have digested the latest speech by the US Federal Reserve chair on
Friday, which sent upbeat signals that the Fed would continue to take
actions to prop up economic growth.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell
said on Friday that the US central bank will continue to act "as
appropriate" to sustain the US economic expansion, which fueled hopes
for further rate cuts.
"Our obligation is to use our tools to
support the economy, and that's what we'll continue to do," Powell said
at the University of Zurich. "We are clearly at a time where there is a
range of views."
US stocks posted weekly gains last week, as
investors' sentiment was boosted by the news that China and the US
agreed to jointly create favourable conditions for trade talks in
October.
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| Customs Exchange Rates |
| Currency |
Import |
Export |
US Dollar
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66.20
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64.50 |
UK Pound
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87.50
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84.65 |
Euro
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78.25
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75.65 |
| Japanese
Yen |
58.85 |
56.85 |
| As on 04 Aug, 2020 |
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