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Thursday, January 28, the main stock indexes of the United States after companies such as Qualcomm and Motorola posted worse-than-expected projections for the activities and concerns the need for financial assistance to Greece, grew up, finished day with negative results.
fallen short of expectations, macroeconomic statistics also added fuel to the fire. Thus, the number of initial applications for unemployment benefits last week dropped from 482 thousand to 470 thousand against forecast a decline to 450 thousand, while orders for durable goods in December increased by 0,3% compared with an estimated increase of 2%.
Ben Bernanke, meanwhile, was approved by the Senate for a second term head Fedrezerva.
At the end of trading the barometer of blue chips "Dow sank to 1.13% to the value of 10 120.46 points, while the more" wide "SP 500 index weakened to 1.18% and closed at 1 084 , 53 points. Rate with a large proportion of the shares of high-tech companies Nasdaq has lowered 1,91% to a value of 2 179 points.
Shares in mobile phone chip Qualcomm collapsed to a maximum in the last 10 years the value of 14% after the company lowered its forecast for sales in 2010 and reported on the expected earnings per share excluding a number of residues in the second quarter of 53 cents that was 7% lower than analysts expected values.
Quotes largest U.S. mobile phone maker Motorola have fallen by 12% to $ 6.48. The company said that in the first quarter will suffer a greater loss than analysts expected, due to falling sales of phones.
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Apple abated from its asset 4,1% and ended the day at $ 199.29. The new product - a tablet iPad - has been criticized by several reviewers.
Shares in chips for IBM - LSI, as well as the software maker Symantec"s results of the auctions have lost more than 6,5% as a result of the publication of forecasts for activities not met the expectations of analysts.
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the world"s biggest consumer sector, Procter Gamble, however, went counter to the overall dynamics of the market and increased by 1.4% to $ 61.68. Net profit of the company during the second quarter was $ 1.49 per share, which exceeded the projected value of $ 1.36. Procter Gamble also increased the annual forecast of sales.
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Eastman Kodak, dealing with photography, shot up 25% to $ 5.92 after reporting earnings 4 quarters of $ 1.36 per share against the analysts expected value of 18 cents.
Crude oil futures for February delivery at the end of trading lessen the cost 3 cents to close at $ 73.64 per barrel. Contracts for gold in electronic trading on COMEX for February delivery fell 90 cents and finished the day at $ 1 083.60 per troy ounce. Yield oba4f 10-year Treasury bonds fell from 3.65% to 3.64%.
In currency trading the dollar strengthened its positions against the euro and weakened against the Japanese yen.
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