Wall Street ended slightly higher, but this was enough to enable the Dow Jones (+0.45%, the third-best closing price ever, at 37,696) and the S&P500 (+0.57% at over 4,783) to set new all-time closing highs.

The year 2024 is thus in the green for the two historical indices mentioned above, with the Nasdaq-100 gaining 0.69% (to just under 16,800) in the wake of Nvidia (+2.5%), which smashed a new all-time high at $545.5.800) in the wake of Nvidia (+2.5%), which smashed a new all-time record at $545.5, i.e. +10% since January 1, already the best performance among the Fantastic 7.

Note the solid rises of Palo-Alto +5.2%, Meta +3.7%, Juniper +2.1% (after +21% the previous day) and especially Intuitive Surgical with +10.2%.

Although commentators were evoking a wait-and-see mood ahead of the US inflation data, a wind of confidence was blowing through Manhattan South this evening.

Perhaps some positions were being taken ahead of the fourth-quarter US corporate earnings season, due to start on Friday, with releases from major banking groups JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo.

Today's session also saw no major movements on the bond market, in the absence of any major economic indicators. US wholesale inventories fell again slightly, by 0.2% in November 2023 after -0.3% in October... data which are two months old and irrelevant for determining future trends.

US T-Bonds ended the day unchanged at 4.018%: we can really speak of a 'pause' on the eve of the CPI.

Note that 'WTI' oil reversed course on the NYMEX, falling from +1.4% to -1.3% at $71.3 after the release of data from the US Energy Information Agency, which reported a modest rise of 1.3 million barrels in US crude oil inventories last week.

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