Baku. Vahab Rzayev – APA-ECONOMICS. U.S. benchmark stock indexes continued to trade at multi-year highs Tuesday after investors returned from an extended weekend to a host of fourth-quarter earnings reports.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 0.5% and the Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 0.5% -- new five-year highs for both. The Nasdaq composite index climbed 0.3%.
In London, FTSE 100 index rose 0. 3% to 6,198, German DAX was up 0.2% to 7,708, French CAC dropped 0.4% to 3,726.
Spot gold went down 0.7% to trade above $1,681.7.
In world market, euro exchange rate against the dollar makes $1.3310 (-0.02%).