US indices see a positive session – TechTrader

FXStreet (Barcelona) - Harry Boxer of TheTechTrader, summarizes the intraday performance of US equity indices, noting that Dow, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended the day positive.

Key Quotes

“The stock market indices had a good session, faulting early in the day, consolidating, but then stair-stepping their way higher to midday highs and session highs. They then consolidated a couple hours, and looked like they were going to extend, but when they were unable to they pulled back, testing secondary support, and bouncing to close firmly on the day.”

“Net on the day, the Dow was up 82.08 at 17,924.06, 49 points off the high. The S&P 500 was up 7.85 at 2088.00, 4 points off the high. The Nasdaq 100 was up 21.80 at 4401.55, 12 points off its high.”

“Advance-declines were 18 to 13 positive on New York Stock Exchange and 5 to 4 on Nasdaq. Up/down volume was 5 to 4 positive on New York, with total volume of 3 billion shares. Nasdaq traded 1.5 billion shares, and had a 4 to 3 positive volume ratio.”

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