Wall Street is targeting its 9th consecutive day of winnings, Apple falls while sales in China disappoint: what feeds markets on Friday?

American actions have all recorded a generalized increase by mid-day on Friday, the S&P 500 preparing to record a ninth consecutive day of winnings-about to reach the longest series of victories since May 2024.

Appétit for the risk has remained firm, supported by results of solid companies and a report on American employment in April stronger than expected. Non-agricultural jobs increased by 177,000, exceeding the expectations of 130,000 and reassuring on fears of slowdown in hires linked to customs prices.

All eleven sectors of the S&P 500 have recorded gains, the financiers very slightly taking the upper hand over the technological. The main clues have now completely recovered from the announcement of the drop in customs tariffs by the president Donald Trump April 2.

The Nasdaq 100 climbed at levels seen for the last time at the end of March, which ended an excellent week for technological actions. Among the seven effective actions, all of them were in the process of ending the upward week, except forApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPP), which lost 4% because its solid results were overshadowed by lower sales in China.

The US dollar index has resumed its decline, under pressure from President Trump’s renewed call to the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates before next week’s monetary policy meeting.

The yields of treasury bills increased after optimistic employment data, the score at 10 years jumped from 10 basis points to 4.31%, reducing fears of recession at the start of the second quarter.

On the raw materials market, oil prices returned to 58 dollars a barrel despite Thursday’s rally against the backdrop of increased geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Gold has rebounded by 0.5%, ready to end a series of three days of losses, while natural gas prices have increased by 4.4% to their highest level for two weeks.

Bitcoin (Crypto: BTC) increased by 1% to 97,500 dollars, marking its fourth consecutive week of gains.

Main indications	Prix	Change over 1 day
Russell 2000	2 009,90	+1,7%
Nasdaq 100	20 052,42	+1,3%
S&P 500	5 671,17	+1,2%
Dow Jones	41 130,34	+0,9%

Updated data at 11:30 am

Data from Pro to gasoline :

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) increased by 1.2 % to 565.03 dollars.
The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) increased by 0.9 % to 411.29 dollars.
The technological index Invesco QQQ Trust Series (Nasdaq: qqq) increased by 1.4 % to 488.26 dollars.
The iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE: IWM) climbed 1.8 % to $ 199.58.
The Fund Financials Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF) has outperformed, with an increase of 1.7 %; The Fund Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLP) has performed less well, with an increase of 0.3 %.