Stocks Market Strongest Election Day rally In 24 Years
Built on Wall Street gains Tuesday as recent volatility low and an improvement in the credit markets, helped give stocks stronger their meeting on election day 24 years.
Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index closed above 1000 for the first time since Oct. 13, gaining 4.08 percent and the Nasdaq composite index had its sixth consecutive day of birth.
At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 3.28 percent, or 305.45 points at 9625.28. The broad S. & P. index gained 39.45 points to 1005.75 and the Nasdaq rose 3.12 percent, or 53.79 points at 1780.12.
Crude oil set at $ 70.53 a barrel, up $ 6.62 in New York trading on speculation that the largest exporter of oil, Saudi Arabia, has cut supplies to some buyers.
Historically, Wall Street enjoyed a bounce in the fourth quarter, after a presidential election as investors breathe a sigh of relief that the long cycle of elections, with its accompanying uncertainty, has ended. Some analysts said investors seem to be trying to get a jump on the expected meeting of buying on election day.
“We do not know if it’s the end of the bear market yet, but it seems as if the bear took a nap,” she said Saturday Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor’s equity research. “So investors are thinking, to enjoy a bit of relief, so the market Lows endless and the pre-election rhetoric.”
Other analysts have said that they believed in elections only a peripheral effect on the market, as there were no major surprises. More importantly for the rally, they said, was a continuous round of reductions in interest rates globally coordinated, a thaw in credit markets and increasing resilience of the market daily to drumbeat of bad economic news. The extreme volatility in the last week of CALMED, although trading volume remained light.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange’s volatility index dipped below 50 for the first time since Oct. 14. The Dow Jones industrial average rallied to 18 percent, to close on October 27, including 10.9 percent gain on Oct. 28.
“Investors are starting to look before some of these numbers in 2009 are beginning to see some recovery,” said Ryan Larson, head equity trader at Voyageur Asset Management. “Some of the volatility coming out of the market.”
Markets showed little reaction as the government reported that new orders for manufactured goods in September decreased $ 11.2 billion, or 2.5 percent, to 432 billion $, a higher-than-expected decline . That came after a 4.3 percent decline in August.
It was the second negative manufacturing report, in two days. On Monday, the Institute for Supply Management index of manufacturing activity in the United States fell from 38.9 in October from 43.5 in September, the worst reading since September 1982. The market also seemed to take in stride news that the costs of day trading in a narrow range eventually ends before the date fixed.
The meeting that took place on Wall Street has been widely. All sectors of industry in the S. & P. index rose, led by energy stocks. Among the 30 blue-chip, stocks that make up the Dow, General Electric, Verizon Communications and Caterpillar were among the strongest performers.
Stock Exchange opened for trading on election day in 1984. This year, the Dow rose 1.2 percent, a gain not topped since, as Ronald Reagan was re-elected.
Shares of MasterCard, the world’s second largest company credit card after Visa, jumped 18 percent, to 170.24 dollars, after the company said it had revenue of more than encouraged greater profit.
However, the company warned that the economic slowdown would affect profit in the near term.
Building on a trend of the past few days has eased the credit markets further Tuesday, with interbank lending rates and corporate decline significantly. The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, a benchmark that banks charges each other, fell from 0375 percent.
Treasury 10-year bill rose 1 17/32 to 102 7 / 32. Yield, which moves in the opposite direction from price, was 3.72 percent, down from 3.91 percent late Monday.
Stock markets were also higher in Europe and Asia. The Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50 index, a barometer of the euro zone blue chips, rose 5.56 percent, while the FTSE 100 index in London jumped 4.42 percent. The Paris CAC 40 gained 4.62 percent and the DAX in Frankfurt was 5 percent.
In Tokyo, the NIKKEI 225 stock index rose by 2.8 percent Wednesday morning, buoyed by a softer yen and the rally in U.S. markets.
In Sydney, the S. & P. / ASX 200 index was 1.9 percent higher than Wednesday morning. Australian central bank surprised markets Tuesday, with a higher than expected interest rate cut. Bank cut its main interest rate target by three quarters of a percentage point to 5.25 percent, more than half a point, which was widely expected.
Following are the results of Tuesday’s Treasury auction of 238-day cash management bills and four-week bills
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