On the rise in the United States – supply battle between Fox and Comcast

In Brussels, NATO countries have met in strained talks since Donald Trump has criticized other countries for failing to keep their defense spending promises and, on the contrary, having let the United States bear an excessive burden. At the meeting, the US president declared victory.

At 16:15, the Dow Jones Industrial Index rose 0.6% to 24,860, while the S & P500 rose 0.5% to 2,790. The Nasdaq technology-driven rose 0.8% to 7707.

At the sectoral level, IT was the best performer with 1.0%, while the industry sector was the largest. energy was the only one to decline by 0.1%

. Broadcom about 18 percent. After Wednesday's shutdown, it became apparent that the semiconductor company has entered into an agreement for the purchase of CA Technologies software company for $ 18.9 billion. CA Technologies climbed just over 18% in Thursday's trade.

The auction battle in the pursuit of British Sky took another turn. The British authorities gave 21st Century Fox permission to buy Sky. However, Comcast put an offer at 14:75 pounds per share, which is higher than the latest 21st Century Fox offer of £ 14 per share, which was added earlier Wednesday. Comcast and Fox shares rose slightly.

UBS lowered its recommendation of Netflix from buying to neutrality. The share of the streaming giant has more than doubled since the beginning of the year, and according to the bank, positive shares have been incorporated into the price. Thursday, Netflix was down about 1%.

Goldman Sachs raised the bar from $ 40 – $ 55. Twitter Facebook Twitter YouTube Twitter The stock has risen from about 3 percent to just over $ 45.

On the macroeconomic front, statistics show that the number of newly announced unemployment benefit claimants in the United States fell by 18,000, to 214,000, in week 27, compared with the previous week. Analysts have identified 225,000 new claimants for unemployment benefits, according to Reuters' average forecast.

Consumer prices rose 0.1% in June from the previous month. Compared with the same month of last year, the CPI rose 2.9%.

The interest rate on 10-year US government bonds was unchanged at 2.85%.