Wall Street opened in green this Thursday and its main indicator, the Dow Jones of Industrials, rose 0.44%, while some companies in the technology sector continued to rise, recovering from last week’s fall, but somewhat more moderate due to the recent attacks ordered by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, on Iran.
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After the opening of the New York stock market, the Dow Jones added 219 points, to 50,138; the selective S&P 500 it advanced 0.17%, to 7,279 integers; and the technological Nasdaq grew 0.12%, to 25,199 units.
Companies like Micron or AMD recorded increases of 2.68% and 4.57%, respectively, while Intel added 10.16%.
The rebound among companies related to the semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) sector occurs at a time of optimism in the market due to SpaceX’s IPO this Friday, which will most likely be the largest in history.
On the other hand, other technology companies such as Oracle lost 10.59%. Some investors suggest that they could be selling shares to make room for Elon Musk’s company.
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However, what would be putting downward pressure on the market are the recent US attacks on Iran, in retaliation for the downing of a US helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump announced this Thursday that his country’s forces will attack Iran again “with great force” “this very night” and warned that they will soon take control of the Iranian oil industry in a very similar way to what they did with Venezuela.
For its part, Texas intermediate oil (WTI) fell 0.73%. Futures contracts for the month of July for benchmark crude oil in the US fell 0.66 dollars, to 89.37 dollars a barrel.
In other markets, gold fell 0.72%, to $4,103 per ounce; silver fell 0.89%, to $64.175 per ounce; and the yield on ten-year Treasury bonds lost 3.6 basis points, to 4.523%.
