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Indicators in red in a day de reduced schedule
At no moment the main stock-exchange averages were over the line de the previous closing. New and nourished alert on the part de companies that are not going to reach their expectations for the trimester impelled a negative panorama in the first hour de transactions.
Soon there was a recovery until the noon. In the last hour the Dow was almost static whereas Nasdaq and the S&P - that had approached the neutral point returned to relax. The closing, the one de afternoon, marked moderate losses.
The Dow closed in 10.571, 31, yielding 22.61 points (0.21%). The Nasdaq backed down 7.92 units (0.37%), and finished in 2.140, 8. The S&P was in 1.234, 45 when sliding 2.27 points (0.18%).
The volume was very little. On the one hand by just a short time in which it operated the market. On the other, because many operators, or took vacations or they stayed to the margin, in a day eve de holiday that is not nothing tempting to try to make differences and in that the behavior de some prices can be - as it happened very atypical.
624 million in the NYSE negotiated, where the winners prevailed per 1.14 to 1. In the Nasdaq they were plus the papers that lowered, in proportion from almost 1.2 to 1. There, the compromised papers were 892 million.
The table de the companies de greater movement was headed by Cisco, with 26 million and 0.16% de loss. They follow Intel (22 Ms, +1.43%), Oracle (22 Ms, +0.97%), and GE (17 Ms, -1,37%). They complete the panel Sun (17 Ms, +0.89%), Check Point Sdetware (17 Ms, -12,49%), WorldCom (17 Ms, -2,3%), Honeywell (17 Ms, +2.9%) and i2 Technologies (16 Ms, +2.03%).
The European regulatory commission rejected the purchase de Honeywell on the part de GE and, against which usually it happens in these cases, the possible buyer lowered whereas to be bought candidate raised considerably. Check Point also moved in inverse sense to the expectable thing, since it informed that it will fulfill the predicted thing for the trimester. I2 Technologies is another example de the world de the reverse: it raised in spite de informing that it will lose US$ 0.16 by action, when US$ 0,06 was expected. Qualcomm, that closed an agreement on patents with Nokia advanced 10.4%.
Multex.com, company de financial information, hurried almost 50% after an unfavorable report. But the report included the announcement de a reconstruction that implies to eliminate 15% de the jobs, an action that the investors usually award. Another infortunada was Internet Security Systems, that noticed the gains de 15 to 16 cents by action considered could become loss de up to 2 cents. It lowered 40.2%. Convergencialatina, Corresponsalía in the United States (IA/JG)
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