Wall Street does big step back – Telegraaf.nl

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The stock markets in New York Wednesday unanimously closed with a loss. The uncertainty about the position of Greece in the eurozone was joined by Wall Street’s concerns about the state of the Chinese economy. The shares trade in the US has long been hampered by a failure to exchange operator NYSE that lasted 3.5 hours.

The Dow Jones Index closed express lewd 1 , 5 percent in the minus at 17515.42 points. The broad S & amp; P 500 slumped 1.7 percent to 2046.69 points. Indicator Technology Nasdaq, which remained immune to technical problems with 4909.76 points was 1.8 percent below the closing level on Tuesday.

The outage at NYSE was caused by a technical fault. Earlier in the day also had to contend airline United Airlines and business newspaper Wall Street Journal with a fault. Rumors of a cyber attack were denied by the NYSE and the American security.

Microsoft

The share of Microsoft closed with a minus of 0.1 percent. The software giant announced the deletion of approximately 7800 jobs, especially in the mobile telephony division. The company will do a write-down of $ 7.6 billion in the troubled division.

Aluminium Company Alcoa saw its market capitalization fall by over 5 percent. Nabeurs is the company with its quarterly results, which the company traditionally the first major US company that opens the books of the past quarter.

Fed

policy makers at the US central banking system, the Federal Reserve, are concerned about the Greek problem and its impact on the economy. The slowdown of the Chinese economy was interpreted as a risk, as shown by the minutes of the June meeting. According to the makers must demonstrate more evidence that the economy picks before interest rates can go up.

The euro was worth 1.1071 dollars against 1.1070 dollars at the close of the European markets on Wednesday. The price of a barrel of American oil fell 1 percent to 51.80 dollars while Brent oil was 0.7 percent higher at $ 57.29 a barrel

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