Finance
Stocks close mixed as tech continues gains
Stocks were mixed Thursday. Technology and retail companies
gained, while the energy and financial sectors slipped. The
dollar
rallied amid sharp declines in emerging-market currencies, and
Treasury yields fell.
Here’s the scoreboard:
Dow Jones industrial
average: 25,508.96 −74.79
(-0.29%)
S&P
500: 2,856.82 −0.88 (-0.031%)
Nasdaq
Composite: 7,902.62 +14.29 (+0.18%)
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Washington and Ankara
remain at odds.
Turkish
officials returned from meetings with a delegation from the US
Treasury and State Department without any resolution to a
conflict over Turkey’s detention of several Americans and other
issues. Strained relations between the NATO allies sent the
lira to an all-time low. - US business inflation
moderated last month. The Labor Department
said the producer price index, which gauges the prices
businesses receive for their products, was mostly unchanged in
July. Still, data showed that core PPI, a measure of underlying
inflation excluding food and energy costs, pushed 0.3% higher
last month, the same as in June. - Earnings season rolls on.Roku crushed
Wall Street expectations. Viacom missed.
In a report that came out a day late, Booking
Holdings lowered its outlook. Tronc and Dropbox report
after the bell — follow Business Insider here for live
updates.
And a look at the upcoming economic calendar:
- The US releases the consumer-price index.
- GDP and trade numbers are out in the UK.
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