U.S. exchanges to depart downward

Global stock markets agree on Thursday. First this morning, the Asian financial centers were closed, one after the other in red. In Europe, the indices are not better. And the United States, the futures are pointing down also. At the opening, the Dow Jones future cowardly 0.3% as 10,500 points, the future S & P 500 yielded 0.14% at 1135 points and the Nasdaq 0.12% to 2298 points. Yesterday, Wall Street has ended the session on an uncertain note, amid job losses more than expected in December by ADP.

Today, official figures published in Washington state that new entries in unemployment in the United States rose slightly during the week ended January 2 with the deposit of 434,000 benefit claims.This is much less than expected.

The Central Bank of England left rates unchanged.

According to Wendy Liu, an analyst at Royal Bank of Scotland, several indicators suggest that China may soon raise interest rates.

Distributors for

As in Europe, the distribution sector makes news in the United States.

As for values to be followed across the Atlantic on Thursday, Macy's (1.58% to 17.37 dollars) has announced an increase of 1% of store sales and raised its forecast results for the fourth quarter to earnings per share between $ 1.14 and $ 1.18, against 1 to $ 1.05 previously. The action takes more than 3% in pre-open trading.

Always among distributors, but in textiles, Gap (0.48% to 21.14 dollars), he, reported sales up 2% in December.Costco Wholesale (0.23% to 60.14%) has published an increase of its activity around 9% on the month of festivities.

Bank Of America Merrill Lynch (1.46% to 16.63 dollars) has been "upgraded" by Credit Suisse to "outperform", while the aluminum producer Alcoa (-2.36% to 16.57 dollars) saw its recommendation degraded at Citi.

• U.S. exchanges around the equilibrium
• The CAC 40 starts sitting in the green
• Wall Street is misguided
• The Paris Bourse is limping along
• Wall Street opens this year in green