Forexpros – U.S. stocks were down after the closing bell on Thursday.
At the close of U.S. trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.04%, the S&P 500 index shed 1.06%, while the Nasdaq 100 index declined 0.43%.
Earlier in the day, official data showed that U.S. Initial Jobless Claims rose unexpectedly to a seasonally adjusted 414K last week from 412K in the preceding week whose figure was revised up from 409K.
Analysts had expected Initial Jobless Claims to fall to 405K last week.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, European stock markets closed higher. France’s CAC 40 was up 0.41%; Germany’s DAX gained 0.05%; Britain’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.41%; and the EURO STOXX 50 rose 0.57%.
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