(CercleFinance.com) – Wall Street ended 2021 on a negative note, having closed Friday’s session with pullbacks of nearly 0.2% to 36,338 points for the Dow Jones, down 0.3% at 4,766 points for the S & P500 and around 0.6% to 15,645 points for the Nasdaq Composite.
Over the past year as a whole, the three leading American indices nevertheless posted increases of 18.7%, 26.9% and 21.4% respectively. For the fourth quarter alone, the Dow Jones gained 7.4%, the S & P500, 10.7%, and the Nasdaq, 8.3%.
‘All 11 sectors of the S & P500 closed in positive territory for 2021, that of energy having led the progression with an increase of 47.7%, its best year ever recorded,’ says Wells Fargo. .
In the news of stocks, Pfizer gained just over 1% after the MHRA decision to authorize the use in the United Kingdom of Paxlovid, the oral antiviral drug developed by the health group for the treatment of the Covid-19.
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) and Xilinx both sold 0.9% against the backdrop of a postponement of the planned date for the proposed acquisition of the latter by the former, given the state of global regulatory approvals required for this operation.
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