General down on US stock exchanges – Swedish Dagbladet

Oil prices pushed down, after three days of rising prices, the dollar rose relative to other currencies.

This struck against energy companies’ shares. And despite the fact that US retail sales rose 1.3 percent in April, which was unexpectedly large, pocket department store chains quarterly – in combination with the depressed figures from large chains earlier this week – the corners of the mouth turned down on the stock market.

Dow Jones industrial index fell 1.1 percent, the Nasdaq composite index fell 0.4 percent while the S & amp; P 500 fell 0.9 percent.