Wall Street returned to its all-time highs on Thursday, on the eve of the final session of the first half of the calendar year, with the S&P500 (+0.1% to 5,483) and Nasdaq Composite (+0.3% to 17,858) within 0.05% of each other.

The "techno" index posted its third consecutive session of gains, returning to its all-time highs of June 17 and 18 (17,860), to end the half-year on a high note.860), ending the half-year on a high note, with a gain of almost 19%.

The S&P500 came close to its June 18 high of 5,487 (+15.1% since January 1), and the Dow Jones also climbed 0.1% to 39,164, preparing to close the second quarter of 2024 in the red, by -2% (it was trading at 39,800 on March 28).

The 'S&P' was slowed by a number of sell-offs, weighing on Micron -7.1%, Goldman Sachs -2.2%... and Walgreen, which disintegrated by -22.2% after its quarterly publication (closure of sales outlets, downward revision of targets).

The session was punctuated by a number of US figures, including the latest estimate of first-quarter GDP growth, which came in at +1.4% annualized (versus +1.3% in the previous estimate), in line with expectations.

Durable goods orders rose by 0.1% in May, where the consensus was for a decline, and 233,000 new jobless claims were registered last week, a figure down by 6,000.

Thursday was also marked by anticipation of the first televised debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, with polls predicting a particularly close election (46% of voting intentions for the Republican, 45% for the Democrat).

Not much movement on T-Bonds: the 10-year yield, which had stagnated since the start of the week, eased by -2.5 basis points to 4.29%... and has thus remained trapped in a 4.26/4.33% range for the past 10 days.

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