Thread: Share Market News & Ideas

09-01-12

U.S. MARKET UPDATE

U.S. stocks rose in the first week of 2012, even though news that the U.S. jobless rate neared a three-year low did not whet interest in equities on Friday.

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 55.78 points, or 0.45 percent, to 12,359.92. The S&P 500 Index fell 3.25points, or 0.25 percent, to 1,277.81. The Nasdaq Composite gained 4.36 points, or 0.16 percent, to 2,674.22

ASIAN MARKET UPDATE

Asian markets were trading lower.

China’s Shanghai Composite was down 0.21% or 4.49 points at 2,158.90.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 1.18% or 219.04 points at 18,374.02.

Singapore’s Straits Times fell 1.03% or 28.10 points at 2,687.49.

South Korea’s Seoul Composite slipped 1.30% or 24 points at 1,819.14.

Taiwan’s Taiwan Weighted was down 0.68% or 48.71 points at 7,071.80.

Japan’s Nikkei shut today.

U.S. STOCK

U.S. stocks rose in the first week of 2012, even though news that the U.S. jobless rate neared a three-year low did not whet interest in equities on Friday.

NSE Daily Losers

Coal India
Grasim Industries
Sun Pharma Inds.
Hindustan Unilever
BHEL