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acho que foram ultrapassados pelos aconecimentos... os do diariodigital... ainda deviam estar a traduzir isso de qq lado é já as bolsas americanas estavam no vermelho.

deveria ter sido mais do tipo:
"10:00AM: Indices lose all their early gains...good earnings reports generally help individual stocks such as Johnson & Johnson (JNJ 51.64 +0.44), Dow Jones (DJ 49.06 +0.11), and Pepsi Bottling (PBG 30.45 +0.13), but overhang of higher interest rates holds the market back...also not helping today are higher energy prices...

9:45AM: Stocks open weaker than suggested by early futures trade...the backup in interest rates is dampening the clearly bullish impact from the very strong retail sales report and excellent earnings reports...the 10-year note yield has jumped to 4.34%..."
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Cump.

[Thomas Hobbes]

As bolsas de Nova Iorque abriram a sessão de terça-feira em alta, fruto dos bons resultados da Johnson & Johnson e dos dados macro-económicos que indicam uma boa prestação das empresas.

O índice Dow Jones abriu a valorizar 0,30% para os 10.547,57 pontos. O índice tecnológico Nasdaq iniciou a crescer 0,32% e a cotar nos 2.072,00 pontos.
O Departamento do Comércio revelou esta terça-feira que as vendas no comércio a retalho em Março subiram 1,8%, acima dos 0,7% esperados, para o nível mais elevado do último ano. Foram também divulgados os inventários das empresas, que cresceram 0,5% em Janeiro, face a uma subidade 0,1% em Janeiro.

A Johnson & Johnson, cotada no índice Dow Jones, apresentou os resultados trimestrais antes do início da sessão, tendo lucrado mais 17% face ao período homólogo de 2003.

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8:30am 04/13/04 U.S. MARCH RETAIL SALES UP 1.8%, EX-AUTOS UP 1.7%
8:30am 04/13/04 U.S. MARCH RETAIL SALES BEAT EXPECTATIONS OF 0.7% GAIN
8:30am 04/13/04 U.S. FEB. RETAIL SALES REVISED TO 1.0% VS. 0.7%
8:30am 04/13/04 U.S. MARCH EX-AUTO RETAIL SALES BEST GAIN IN 4 YEARS
8:30am 04/13/04 U.S. MARCH RETAIL SALES BIGGEST GAIN IN A YEAR
8:30am 04/13/04 U.S. MARCH AUTO SALES UP 2.1%
8:30am 04/13/04 U.S. RETAIL SALES UP 8.2% YEAR-OVER-YEAR

U.S. March retail sales up 1.8%, best in a year

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - U.S. retail sales rose 1.8 percent in March, the fastest growth in a year, the Commerce Department estimated Tuesday.
Sales at most kinds of stores were healthy in March.
Auto sales increased 2.1 percent. Excluding autos, sales increased 1.7 percent, the biggest increase in four years.
The gains were far ahead of Wall Street expectations of 0.7 percent for total sales and 0.6 percent for ex-auto sales.
Retail sales for January and February were also revised higher.
January's gain was revised from 0.3 percent to 0.5 percent while February's increase was revised to 1 percent from 0.7 percent.

ECONOMIC REPORT - Retail sales up 1.8%, best in a year
By Rex Nutting, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 8:31 AM ET April 13, 2004

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - U.S. retail sales rose 1.8 percent in March, the fastest growth in a year, the Commerce Department estimated Tuesday.

Sales at most kinds of stores were healthy in March. Auto sales increased 2.1 percent. Excluding autos, sales increased 1.7 percent, the biggest increase in four years.

Core sales excluding cars and gas also rose 1.8 percent, the biggest gain since October 2001.

The gains were far ahead of Wall Street expectations of 0.7 percent for total sales and 0.6 percent for ex-auto sales.

Retail sales for January and February were also revised higher. January's gain was revised from 0.3 percent to 0.5 percent while February's increase was revised to 1 percent from 0.7 percent.

The revised figures put consumer spending closer to the track economists had assumed going into the first quarter when they figured big tax refunds would propel spending for the first half of the year.

Forecasts of annualized first-quarter gross domestic product growth will likely be bumped higher than the current 4.3 percent.

The better-than-expected retail sales will likely have little impact on the Federal Reserve's deliberations about when to raise interest rates. The Fed is primarily concerned about job growth and inflation, and not in economic growth per se, as reassuring as the numbers are.

Retail sales are up 8.2 percent over March 2003 levels. The figures are not adjusted for price changes.

Sales gains were widespread in March.

Sales at hardware and garden stores surged a record 10.6 percent. Sales at furniture stores rose 1.2 percent while sales at appliance and electronics stores inched 0.2 percent higher.

Although sales at general merchandise stores rose 0.3 percent, sales at department stores were disappointing, falling 0.8 percent. Leisure activity stores, such as books, music, sports and hobbies, fell 0.7 percent.

Sales at clothing stores rose 1.9 percent, sales at health and personal care stores increased 1.1 percent and sales at food stores increased 0.8 percent.

Sales at gasoline stations increased 0.8 percent, likely a result of higher gasoline prices.