{"id":529214,"date":"2010-04-15T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/closing-bell-another-day-another-rally-and-the-stories-you-need-to-know-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:04:00","slug":"another-day-another-rally-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529214","title":{"rendered":"Another Day, Another Rally: Here&#8217;s What You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bc7494d7f8b9a6163490500-260-195\/ash-cloud.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ash Cloud\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course the indices closed up today. Next stop? Dow 12,000, baby!<\/p>\n<p><strong>DJIA<\/strong>: Up 21 points to 11,144.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NASDAQ<\/strong>: Up 10 points to 2515.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S&amp;P 500:<\/strong> Up 1 points to 1211.<\/p>\n<p>Commodities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oil: Down 0.41% or $0.35 to $85.49 a barrel.<\/li>\n<li>Gold: Up 0.01% or $0.10 to $1159.70 an ounce.<\/li>\n<li>Silver: Up 0.05% or $0.01 to $18.43 an ounce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Now here&#8217;s what you need to know as you leave work today<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Google has released basically in-line results after the bell<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-earnings-analysis-goog-q1-2010\">Follow the results with our live coverage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The ash spewed from a volcano in Iceland continues to spread across Europe<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/iceland-volcano-travel-2010-4\">Flights have been stopped<\/a> and now concerns have arisen that the ash could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/is-europe-about-to-scream-2010-4\">impact agriculture, tourism, and business travel in the long term<\/a> in the euro zone and UK.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>U.S. homebuilder sentiment <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Homebuilder-sentiment-index-apf-1026492099.html;_ylt=AgHLpC8XmwR_IXZxiUDqCh.7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1ZDI4NWd2BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawNob21lYnVpbGRlcnM-?x=0&amp;sec=topStories&amp;pos=2&amp;asset=&amp;ccode=\">rose in April<\/a> as a result of buyers trying to take advantage of tax credits before they expire<\/strong>. The index jumped to its highest level since September 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Philadelphia Federal Reserve&#8217;s business activity index and the New York Federal Reserve&#8217;s &#8220;Empire State&#8221; manufacturing index <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Wall-Street-rises-with-rb-2752293315.html;_ylt=AgjuOE.YpsPfvdJd4w.YBOK7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1b2NmOGYwBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawN3YWxsc3RyZWV0cmk-?x=0&amp;sec=topStories&amp;pos=main&amp;asset=&amp;ccode=\">both rose more than expected<\/a>, with the New York index reaching a 6 month high<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The St. Louis Fed chief announced his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/15\/st-louis-fed-chief-calls_n_539157.html\">support for the breakup of the largest banking institutions today<\/a><\/strong>. James Bullard said he was in support of their breakup, but was unsure how it could be accomplished saying the government lacked a plan to achieve such a goal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/closing-bell-another-day-another-rally-and-the-stories-you-need-to-know-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/8WQkIYeWqgw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the indices closed up today. Next stop? Dow 12,000, baby! DJIA: Up 21 points to 11,144. NASDAQ: Up 10 points to 2515. S&amp;P 500: Up 1 points to 1211. Commodities: Oil: Down 0.41% or $0.35 to $85.49 a barrel. Gold: Up 0.01% or $0.10 to $1159.70 an ounce. 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