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November 23rd, 2024
Insight on Plan Design & Investment Strategy Every Weekday
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ECONOMIC EVENTS |
Tuesday, the Census Bureau will report new home sales for October. Wednesday, the Department of Labor will announce initial jobless claims.
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MARKET MIRROR |
Friday, the Dow rose 426.16 points (0.97%) to close at 44,296.51, the Nasdaq rose 31.23 points (0.16%) to close at 19,003.65 and the S&P 500 rose 20.63 points (0.35%) to close at 5,969.34. The Russell 2000 rose 42.65 points (1.80%) to close at 2,406.67, and the FT Wilshire 5000 Index rose 319.28 points (0.53%) to close at 60,269.90.
The 10-year Treasury note increased 1/32, bringing the yield to 4.411%. The 30-year Treasury bond increased 3/32, bringing the yield to 4.584%.
In the week ending November 22, the Dow rose 1.96%, the Nasdaq rose 1.73% and the S&P 500 rose 1.68%. The Russell 2000 rose 4.46%, and the FT Wilshire 5000 Index finished 2.15% higher.
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DEALS AND PEOPLE
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Retirement Industry People Moves
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Hartford Funds names Mackay as head of distribution; Mercer appoints Penner as U.S., Canada career leader; The Standard hires Tucci as national accounts sales manager; and more.
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ON THIS DATE: In 1914, baseball player Joe DiMaggio, who played his entire 13-year career in the Major Baseball League for the New York Yankees, was born. In 1936, Germany and Japan formed the Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union. In 1942, Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer chose Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site of Project Y, which developed the first atomic bomb. In 1975, Suriname gained its independence from the Netherlands. In 2005, Irish-born soccer player George Best, one of the premier forward’s in the game’s history, died in London. In 2016, Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed this country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere and became a symbol of the communist revolution in Latin America, died at age 90. In 2020, Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona, who was considered one of the greatest soccer players of all time, died at age 60.
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