The US stock markets opened higher on Thursday. Among the main indexes, the S&P 500 was up 0.4 percent, the Nasdaq up 0.4 percent and the Dow Jones up 0.3 percent.
At the top of the exchanges Nvidia started up 2.5 percent and MicroStrategy 10.5 percent up.
On Thursday, the Ukrainian war and Russia’s harsh words and the results of chip designer Nvidia announced last night Finnish time were melting in the market. Nvidia’s result exceeded forecasts, but the price reaction had been a small drop in the aftermarket.
The price of the cryptocurrency bitcoin climbed again and was already over $98,000. Bitcoin’s price development largely drives the course of the software company MicroStrategy, as the company has a lot of bitcoin on its balance sheet.
Data was received from the United States on last week’s new unemployment compensation applications. The number was lower than expected and decreased from the previous week.
In the macroeconomic calendar today, there are still figures from the predictive economic index of the United States for October, as well as preliminary figures for consumer confidence in the euro area from November.
Source: www.arvopaperi.fi
