Noticias de Hoy

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 extended gains to a fourth day on Thursday, putting it on the cusp of a new five-year high if Friday’s jobs report shows encouraging signs for the labor market. The rally was broad, with all 10 S&P 500 sectors up and financials in the lead. The S&P’s financial index gained 1. 5 percent. In the tech arena, Google Inc shares hit a new 52-week high of $769. 89 earlier in the session. The stock ended up 0. 7 percent at $768. 05. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – U. S. stocks rose on Thursday with the S&P up for a fourth session, after data suggested improvement in the labor market ahead of Friday’s closely watched monthly payrolls report. The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose only slightly last week after a big drop the week before, keeping in place a trend that indicated a mild improvement in the labor market. The S&P 500 has climbed 16 percent so far this year. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose only slightly last week, keeping in place a trend that suggests a mild improvement in the labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 367,000, the Labor Department said, below economists’ expectations for a rise to 370,000. The four-week moving average for new claims, a better measure of labor market trends, was unchanged at 375,000. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures added to gains after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said growth risks are on the downside and should be contained by effective policymaker action. S&P 500 futures rose 7. 8 points and were above fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration of the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures added 48 points and Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 13. 75 points. (Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares and the risk-sensitive Australian dollar edged higher in choppy trade on Thursday, with investors worrying about slow global growth and awaiting fresh U. S. economic data and a European Central Bank policy meeting later in the day. U. S. stock futures rose 0. 5 percent, as a CNN/ORC snap poll said 67 percent of registered voters surveyed thought Republican candidate Mitt Romney, seen as pro-business, won the first debate with President Barack Obama. Financial spreadbetters expect London’s FTSE 100 , Paris’s CAC-40 and Frankfurt’s DAX to open as much as 0. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street ended modestly higher on Wednesday on stronger-than-expected U. S. labor and service-sector data, but the Dow industrials were hobbled by a slide in Hewlett-Packard. Shares of Hewlett-Packard dropped sharply after the company warned on Wednesday of a darker outlook for 2013 earnings, reflecting slow progress on CEO Meg Whitman’s turnaround plan while technology spending sputters and driving its stock down 13 percent to a nine-year low. The three major U. S. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks rose on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected employment and service-sector data in the United States, but a gloomier outlook in China and Europe weighed on commodity prices and hit energy and materials shares. Data showed growth in the U. S. services sector picked up in September, defying economists’ expectations for a slight decrease, while the private sector added more jobs last month than forecast. The data comes ahead of the closely watched monthly U. S. non-farm payrolls report on Friday. . . .

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LONDON (Reuters) – Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones down 0. 2 percent, while contracts on the Nasdaq 100 were down 0. 1 percent at 3. 51 a. m. EDT. European stocks dipped early on and Japan’s Nikkei average fell to a three-week closing low as uncertainty surrounding a potential bailout for debt-stricken Spain and further signs of a slowdown in China rattled investors. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York state’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co alleging fraud in mortgage-backed securities sold by Bear Stearns may be one of the broadest cases to come out of the financial crisis, but its impact is likely to be limited. The biggest beneficiaries may be investors who have taken out private lawsuits against the bank. The civil suit, brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, is the first from a federal-state financial fraud task force. It did not unearth any previously unknown details or attempt to assign criminal liability. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The euro zone debt crisis is pushing the International Monetary Fund into new, and at times, uncomfortable territory. The global lender is preparing to monitor some of Europe’s largest economies possibly without its biggest weapon – money. The IMF lacks the financial heft to come to the aid of economies the size of Spain or Italy on its own, even though its monitoring and enforcement role would be in demand. . . .

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