U.S. Stocks Up As Omicron Concerns Retreat, European Stocks Up Rebounding Last Week’s Losses
London, Monday, 06 December 2021
U.S. and European markets ended in greens on Monday as concerns about the omicron variant of Covid, retreated.
U.S. Stock Market Indexes
S&P 500: +53.24 (+1.17%) to 4,591.67
Nasdaq: +139.68 (+0.93%) to 15,225.15
Dow Jones: +646.95 (+1.87%) to 35,227.03
European Stock Market Indexes
STOXX Europe 600: +5.94 points, or 1.28%, to close at 468.71.
FTSE 100 in London: +110 points, or 1.54%, to end the day at 7,232.
DAX 30 in Germany: +210, or 1.39%, to 15,380 points
CAC 40 in France: +100 points, or 1.48%, to 6,865
FTSE MIB 30 in Italy: +560 points, or 2.16%, to end the day at 26,498
IBEX 35 in Spain: best performer of the day, +198 points, or 2.4%, to close at 8,439.
Other markets
Ten-year U.S. Treasury notes: +9.1 bps to yield 1.4340%
Dollar index: +0.19, 0.19% at $96.30, as of Dec 6, 2021 4:13 p.m. EST
VIX volatility index: −3.44 (11.22%) at 27.23, as of Dec 6, 3:11 PM CST
Oil prices
Brent crude: +0.53 0.73% to $73.61 a barrel, as of Dec 6, 2021 at 9:33 p.m. GMT
West Texas Intermediate: +3.73 5.63% at $69.98, as of Dec 6, 2021 at 4:19 p.m. EST
Precious metals
Gold: -$3.90 (-0.22%) to $1,780.00 per ounce
Silver: -0.19 -0.86% to 22.38 per ounce
Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin: −298.20 (0.60%) at 49,190.00, as of Dec 6, 9:30 PM UTC
Etherum: +55.74 (1.33%) at 4,260.25, as of Dec 6, 9:30 PM UTC
(Written and edited by: The Decision Maker)