Still up for the 2nd consecutive day
The major indices are ending higher, but gains were somewhat ho-hum. The Dow led the way with a gain of 141 points but 110 of the gain was a result of the gain in Goldman Sachs.
The final numbers are showing:
- The S&P index reos 5.8 points or 0.22% at 2616.10
- The Nasdaq index rose by 10.86 points or 0.15% at 7034
- The Dow rose 141 points ro 0.59% at 24207.16.
Goldman was the big winner. It's stock rose by $17.33 or 9.63% to $197.24.
Other financials did well including:
- Deutsche Bank, +7.94%
- Bank of America, +7.16%
- Charles Schwab, +5.49%
- Morgan Stanley, +3.75%
- Wells Fargo, +2.62%
- UBS group, +2.38%
- American Express, +1.43%
- Citigroup, +1.3%
- PNC financial, +0.86%
- J.P. Morgan, +0.79%
Not a bad week for the financials.
Other winners today include:
- General Electric, +2.6%
- Alibaba, +2.363%
- Apple, +1.22%
- Caterpillar, +0.73%
- Amazon, +0.55%
Losers on the day include:
- Ford Motor, -6.28%
- AMD, -3.19%
- Broadcom, -1.87%
- Twitter, -1.74%
- Pfizer, -1.52%
- Coca-Cola, -1.39%
- Lockheed Martin, -1.32%
- Gilead, -1.28%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb, -1.19%
- Celgene, -1.05%
- McDonald's, -1.0%
- Intel, -0.97%