The three major U.S. stock indexes whole line January 28, the Dow closed at a new high of nearly two years. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 11,989.83 points in mid-June 2008 for the highest close since, up 4.39 points, or 0.04%; the Nasdaq composite index closed at 2755.28 points, up 15.78 points, or 0.58%; the S & P 500 index closed at 1299.54 points, up 2.91 points, or 0.22%.
From the disk point of view, better technology stocks rally, ISSI closed up 10.27%, Amazon, Yahoo rose over 4%, Siemens, Microsoft, gains are close, down 2.32% contrarian Dell. Financial stocks were generally higher, closed up 2.86% Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, NYSE Group, rose more than 1%.
Message level, the U.S. Labor Department report showed Thursday, as of January 22 when the weekly initial claims for unemployment benefits increased by 5.1 million to 45.4 million, the highest since October 2010 the highest level.