This week Dow Jones hit a record closing on Tuesday with 14,164.53 points, and a record during the session with 14,198.10 points.

New York Stock Exchange will face a series of results from companies that will confirm its record levels and put macroeconomic data aside.

At the end of an irregular week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.19%, closing on Friday at 14,093.08 points.

This week Dow Jones hit a record closing on Tuesday with 14,164.53 points, and a record during the session with 14,198.10 points. NASDAQ composite index gained 0.91% with 2,805.68 points for the entire week. Standard and Poor’s 500 added 0,27%, closing on Friday with 1,561.80.

Driven by Dow Jones, SP 500 also registered historical records: 1,565.26 on Tuesday close and 1,576.09 on Thursday close.

Meanwhile, the performance of 10 year bonds advanced 4.687% against 4.640% on Friday, and 30 year bonds advanced 4.905% against 4.871% a week ago.

After this new series of records, financial turbulences over the last months seem to be a thing of the past, although “investors seem nervous about the scale of the recent rise”, says Frederick Dickson, analyst at DA Davidson & Co.

"There is a certain fear that the market has advanced too much in a short period, even before the results from companies”, said Marc Pado, from Cantor Fitzgerald.
During the next week, the results’ season will get ahead with the publishing of a large number of high-capitalization companies in Wall Street.

Yahoo! and Intel will publish their results on Tuesday, Apple and eBay on Wednesday, and AMD and Google on Thursday.

The banking sector, first victim of the summer, will also show its performance: Citigroup (Monday), JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch (Wednesday), Bank of America (Thursday), and Wachovia (Friday).

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