US stocks continue rally on economic recovery hopes
July 17th, 2009 - 7:03 am ICT by IANSNew York, July 17 (DPA) Major US stock indices climbed Thursday for the fourth straight session amid hopes that the US recession will come to an end later this year.
Stocks rallied late in the trading day after a noted US economist, Nouriel Roubini, made some of his most optimistic comments yet on the state of the US economy, according to Bloomberg News.
Roubini, a professor at New York University, said the 19-month US recession would end later this year, revising his personal forecast for a turnaround in early 2010.
The freefall of the economy has stopped,” Roubini said at a conference of Chilean investors in New York, according to Bloomberg.
Technology stocks gained ahead of earnings reports from International Business Machines (IBM) and Google.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 95.61 points, or 1.11 percent, to 8,711.82. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 8.06 points, or 0.86 percent, to 940.74. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 22.13 points, or 1.19 percent, to 1,885.03.
The US currency dropped against the euro to 70.71 euro cents from 70.89 euro cents on Wednesday and fell against the Japanese currency to 93.76 yen from 94.32 yen.
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