Tag: Nasdaq

• Thursday, August 3rd 2017 - 15:38 UTC

  Wall Street breaks the 22.000 mark for the first time

  

  Asian markets paused for breath Thursday after Wall Street smashed through 22,000 for the first time, with regional traders focused on fresh clues on the health of the US economy. Strong Apple earnings propelled the Dow above the barrier to mark its sixth straight record close — but the tech-heavy Nasdaq closed marginally lower.

• Friday, April 24th 2015 - 08:03 UTC

  Nasdaq index beats its 2000 record, closing at an all time high of 5.056

  

  The United States tech-heavy Nasdaq index has closed at a record high, surpassing a level it last reached in 2000 at the height of the dot com bubble. The index gained 20.89 points to close at 5,056.06, besting the high of 5,048.62 it hit on 10 March 2000.

• Thursday, October 9th 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  “Easy money” will be around for some time still, say Fed's minutes

  

  US markets rose sharply after minutes from the September meeting of the Federal Reserve were released. The transcript indicated that US central bankers were wary of raising rates too soon. Officials were worried markets were too focused on a rate rise happening during a specific period of time.

• Thursday, December 19th 2013 - 06:01 UTC

  Fed announces gradual conditioned tapering of stimuli from next January

  

  The U.S. Federal Reserve will start scaling back its monthly bond-buying program as early as next month, but the reduction will be gradual. The Federal Reserve has been buying 85 billion dollars a month in government bonds in an effort to keep interest rates low and boost economic growth.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 06:39 UTC

  Nasdaq and ICE bid for New York Stock Exchange Euronext

  

  US exchanges Nasdaq and ICE have mounted a 11.3 billion US dollars bid for NYSE Euronext, topping a previous offer from Deutsche Boerse. The bid compares with Deutsche Boerse's offer of 10.2bn.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 07:16 UTC

  Nasdaq reacts to spate of deals in the stock markets industry

  

  Nasdaq OMX Group Inc could launch a rival bid for NYSE Euronext to avoid being left on the sidelines, a source said, as traditional exchanges race to merge to see off upstart electronic rivals.