Facebook caused a furor - the social network shares rose almost 17% after good financial reports for the fourth quarter
U.S. stock markets are on the rise after data growth economic development of the United States , says Market Watch. In the last quarter of 2013 gross domestic product increased by 3.2%.
In the third quarter growth in the U.S. economy was in a little over 4% and the statistics are clear - the U.S. recorded the strongest consecutive quarters since the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012.
S & P500 opened with a growth of almost 0.8% to 1 786.56 points. About Dow Jones increase is limited - within almost half a percent to 15 815.30 points.
The most significant growth, however, recorded Nasdaq - almost 1.5 percent to 4 103.82 points.
Significant increases in the stock price is in the social networks Facebook, Twitter and the search engine Google. Trading in shares of Facebook is done at a cost of just over $ 62 per share, an increase of almost 17% compared to the closing level on Wednesday.
The company presented its financial statements , and the data in them turned out better than expected. The revenues of the social network increased by 63% to 2.59 billion dollars.
Google did was evaluated by investors after Motorola managed to sell to Lenovo for 2.91 billion dollars. Shares of the search engine rose nearly 3% to a price of 1138 dollars cash.
Exxon Mobil, however, disappointed - the company's revenue fell to 8.35 billion dollars, compared to 9.95 billion dollars in the last quarter of 2012. The basis of this decline is the reduction of natural gas and oil. As a result, at the time of the oil company's shares fell 1.5 percent to a price of about 94 dollars a share.
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