And that's 7 for the Dow Jones, which has been inexorably climbing since May 1st.

The Dow Jones also outperformed the other US indices, advancing 0.85% to 39,348: the 39,807Pts of March 28 are not far off.
The S&P500 is back in touch with its all-time highs (5,254) with a gain of +0.54% to 5,214 (best close since March 28, with 86% of shares up).
The Nasdaq is content with +0.25% to 16,346, but finishes within 100pts (0.6%) of its best mark of 16,442 on April 11.442 of April 11.
The Nasdaq-100 posted +0.18%, in the wake of Booking +3.3%, Autodesk +2.2%, Apple +1%... but the index was held back by the -6.9% decline of Airbn'b, Palo Alto Network -2.4%, Micron -1.3% and above all -1.8% of Nvidia (with its $2.2200Bn capi).

The S&P500 benefited from the rebound of the oil companies, with Chevron +1.6%, Marathon and Halliburton +1.1%.
Shortly after the close, Akamai was down -9% despite EPS of $1.64 vs. an estimated $1.61... but the outlook is disappointing.

A pleasant surprise on the bond front: US T-Bonds reversed course in the afternoon, dropping from +2pts at 2.502% to -3pts at 4.457%, with the same spread for the 2-year at 4.813%.

On the figures front, weekly jobless claims in the US stood at 231,000 at the end of the week to April 29, up 22,000 on the previous week, which was revised marginally upwards from 208,000 to 209,000.
Previous figures were marked by a rare stagnation close to historic lows - around 210/220.000- which lasted 1 month.

The four-week moving average - more representative of the underlying trend - came out at 210,250, an anecdotal rise of 250 on the previous week.

Finally, the number of people receiving regular benefits rose by 17,000 to 1,785,000 during the week of April 22, the most recent period available for this statistic.

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