Wall Street closes its first half with strong Nasdaq growth and losses on the Dow Jones

Wall Street closed this Friday in green and the Dow Jones, its leading indicator, rose 0.23% driven by the energy sector, although US trade tensions caused them weekly losses on the markets.

At the close of trading, the Dow Jones added 55.36 points, up to 24,271.41 points, while the S & P 500 selective rebounded 0.08% or 2.06 points, up from D the other hand, the Nasdaq composite index, in which include major technology companies, gained 0.09% or 6.62 points, up to 7 510,30 full.

the largest gains were for energy (0.65%), related to the rise in the price of Texas intermediate oil, which closed at $ 74.15 at the November 2014 level , because of worries about Iranian supply.

They followed basic materials (0.23%) and industrial materials (0.20%), while the most damaged were telecommunications (-0.63%).

Despite Friday's gains on Wall Street, the indicators close the week with losses related to concerns over trade tensions between the United States and some of its partners, such as China, the European Union or Canada

The Dow recorded a decline of 1.26% in the last five days; the S & P 500, 1.33%; On Friday, Washington will impose tariffs on Chinese goods worth $ 34 billion and, apart, the White House announced Tuesday a plan to limit the country's investment in business.

In addition, Canada announced Friday that it plans to impose Sunday duties on a list of products worth 12.78 billion US dollars in retaliation against steel and aluminum tariffs applied by the neighboring country. ] Although this week and the month of June meant losses for the New York public prosecutor's office, in the first half, the Dow Jones is the only one to fall (-1.81%), while the S & P wins 1, 67% and the Nasdaq is growing strongly, 8.79%.

Of the 30 titles in the Dow Jones, the sports firm Nike (NYSE: NKE) is distinguished today, with an increase of 11.13% in reaction to the results Quarterly which has exceeded Expectations

American Express (NYSE: AXP) (1.06%), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) (0.93%) Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) (0.93%), Coca-Cola also rebounded (NYSE: KO) (0.90%), among other companies, and on the other side of the table had the highest losses Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) (-1.28%), Verizon (NYSE: VZ) (-1.08%) and JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) (-0.70%).

In other markets, the yield on 10-year Treasury bills was 2,887%; and at the close of Wall Street, gold reached $ 1,254.10 an ounce and the dollar lost ground against the euro, which rose to $ 1,168