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US market indices slip

06 January 2009 09:14 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Vahab Rzayev - APA-Economics. On Wall Street, U.S. stocks fell as investors booked profits after last week’s 6 percent runup. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 81.80 points, or 0.91 percent, to 8,952.89. The Nasdaq Composite Index slid 4.18 points, or 0.26 percent, to 1,628.03.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares rose 1.9% to 873.01 points. The index is now up 16% since last November.
In Frankfurt, the DAX index ended at 4,983.99 points, up 10.92 or 0.22%. In Paris, the CAC-40 index closed at 3,359.92 points, up 10.23 or 0.31%.
The Swiss market index closed at 5,756.09 points, up 221.56 or 4%.
In Britain, the FTSE 100 gained 0.4% to end 17.85 points higher at 4,579.64 - its highest close in two months.
The oil and gas sector climbed 3.3 percent as the price of crude rose above $48 a barrel, helped up by worries over the effects of Israel’s attacks on Gaza and by Russia’s dispute with Ukraine over natural gas prices.