Wall Street opened this Wednesday in green with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its main indicator, consolidating its highest figures despite the geopolitical uncertainty caused by the arrest of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, by the United States.
Ten minutes after the New York stock market opened, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.12%, to 49,523 units; The selective S&P 500 gained 0.07%, to 6,949, and the Nasdaq advanced 0.12%, to 23,575.
Despite the geopolitical uncertainty generated by the capture of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, by the United States, Wall Street’s main stock indices hardly noticed any changes at their opening, with all three making small gains in the first minutes.
The price of Texas intermediate oil (WTI) fell 1.28% after Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim authorities will deliver up to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, fueling concerns about an increase in oil supply.
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However, US oil refining companies such as Valero Energy and Marathon Petroleum gained 4.92% and 2.6% respectively, with Venezuelan oil sales continuing indefinitely and awaiting future sanctions reductions, CNBC notes.
This Wednesday, the board of directors of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) rejected the latest acquisition offer by Paramount Skydance (PSKY) considering it “inferior” to the merger agreement with Netflix.
Netflix opened with gains of more than 1%, although minutes later it moderated to a rise of 0.5%.
For their part, both Warner Bros. and Paramount hardly noticed any changes in their actions.
In the technology sector, Nvidia grew 1.5% on the second of the four days of the CES fair in Las Vegas, in which the chip giant presents its new offer of artificial intelligence (AI) products.
With information from EFE
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