US market indices fluctuate

US market indices fluctuate
# 22 December 2008 09:20 (UTC +04:00)
Baku. Vahab Rzayev - APA-Economics. The Dow fell 25.88, or 0.30 percent, to 8,579.11. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 2.60, or 0.29 percent, to 887.88, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 11.95, or 0.77 percent, to 1,564.32.
For the week, the Dow ended down 0.59 percent, while the S&P 500 finished up 0.93 percent and the Nasdaq up 1.53 percent. All of the indexes are still down more than 35 percent for the year.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 7.09, or 1.48 percent, to 486.26.
Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 1.01 percent, Germany’s DAX index fell 1.26 percent, and France’s CAC-40 fell 0.26 percent. The dollar rose against other major currencies. Gold prices fell.
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