The Dow closed up 0.12%, again a record high of more than two years

The three major U.S. stock indexes on December 24 ended mixed, with the Dow slightly higher, again a record closing high of more than two years. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index closed at 11,573.49 points, up 14.00 points, or 0.12%, a record close since the end of August 2008 a new high; the Nasdaq composite index closed at 2665.60 points, down 5.88 points, or 0.22%; Standard & Poor's 500 index closed at 1256.77 points, down 2.07 points, or 0.16%.

Point of view from the disk, a day after the good performance of the weak performance of financial stocks, the largest drag. AIG, Bank of America, REGIONS FINL, Hartford fell more than 2%, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo is also 1% decline over the JP Morgan Chase, Capital One, MetLife also fell slightly. Technology stocks were mixed, Cisco, HP, Siemens, Yahoo and Microsoft are slightly higher, but the gains did not exceed 1%; Amazon, Ericsson fell more than 1%, AMD, eBay, ISSI, Dell, Apple , Google, Oracle, Motorola Dengjun fell slightly.

News of the U.S. in November durable goods orders fell 1.3%, higher than the average market forecast of 0.6%. However, the U.S. consumer spending increased slightly in November, while consumer spending in October appeared the largest increase since more than a year. In addition, the United States last week for the first time jobless claims fell by 3,000, to 42 million, better than economists had expected a decline in 2000.

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