Börse Express – New York Stocks: More Gains Thanks to Good Goldman Numbers and Economic Data

New York (dpa-AFX) – Der Dow Jones Industrial Its previous day’s earnings expanded on Friday. Among other things, positive business figures from investment bank Goldman Sachs ensured a good mood . In addition, retail sales, which are important to the United States as the world’s largest economy, rose surprisingly in September.

The US benchmark rose 1.03 percent to 35,273.42 points. This raised a good record high of 35,631 points, which was reached in mid-August, a little closer. On a weekly basis, there is an increase of about 1.5 percent.

Der S&P 500 It rose 0.71 percent on Friday to 4,469.60 points. For the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index
It rose 0.39 percent to 15,111.75 points.

Goldman Sachs heads into a record year thanks to impressive mergers and IPOs. In addition, the bank surprised positively with its net income and earnings per share in the third quarter. The financial institution’s shares rose by about three percent.

Investors were also brave in other bank stocks. Morgan Stanley shares rose , Citigroup
, American bank Wells Fargo
A good percentage is about two to seven percent.

Virgin Galactic Shareholders In the meantime he had to accept another setback. The start of tourist flights to the space frontier that the space company planned for the third quarter of next year will now be postponed to the last quarter of 2022. The reason for this is the delay in the planned improvement of the space plane.

In September, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily banned Virgin Galactic from flying more flights. The background was that billionaire Richard Branson’s spaceship flew into space on July 11 during its flight into space outside its designated airspace corridor.

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