Strong gains for the week too

US stocks do it again. New records for the three major indices. Strong gains for the week too:

  • The S&P index is closing of 18.94 points or 0.70% at 2742.94
  • The NASDAQ composite index is closing up 58.644 points or 0.83% at 7136.559
  • The Dow industrial average is closing up 220.26 points or 0.88% at 25295.39

For the trading week:

  • The S&P index is up 2.59%
  • The NASDAQ composite index is up 3.38%
  • The Dow Jones industrial average is up 2.33%

As good as the US stock was this week, the global markets did just as well or better

  • German DAX rose 3.11%
  • Spain's Ibex rose 3.66%
  • Italy's FTSE MIB rose 4.16%
  • Japan's Nikkei index rose 4.17%
  • Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 2.99%

Some of the overachievers today:

  • Apple rose 1.14%
  • Alphabet rose 1.46%
  • Microsoft rose 1.24%
  • Netflix rose 2.12%
  • Amazon rose 1.62%
  • Alibaba rose 2.69%
  • Twitter rose 1.3%
  • Boeing rose 4%
  • Caterpillar rose 1.56%
  • MasterCard rose 1.94%
  • Visa rose 2.39%
  • Facebook rose 1.37%

There were some losers too today:

  • AMD -1.98%
  • Micron -2.3%
  • Disney -0.60%
  • Goldman Sachs -0.58%
  • Celgene -1.58%
  • Deutsche Bank -6.15%
  • J.P. Morgan -0.69%
  • Citigroup -0.17%