U.S. stock markets closed the trading session on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, supported by a rally in technology stocks and continued release of corporate results, while investors await business results from Tesla and United Airlines. Second quarter.

US indices in the session of Wednesday, July 20, 2022

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.1%, or 47 points, to end at 31,874.

The broader “Standard & Poor’s 500” index rose 0.6% or 23 points to register 3959 points.

The Nasdaq index rose 1.6 percent, or 184 points, to 11,897.

Performance of US stocks on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 session

Technology stocks led the sector’s gains in the US stock market, as “Amazon” and “Apple” rose 3.9% and 1.3%, respectively.

Shares of “Netflix” also rose 7.3% after the broadcasting platform announced that the number of subscribers worldwide fell by 970,000 subscribers in the second quarter of this year, missing the company’s previous expectations of two million subscribers. .

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European and Japanese stocks in the session on Wednesday, July 20, 2022

As for European markets, during the Wednesday, July 20, 2022 session, the “Stoxx 600” index fell by about 0.2% or the equivalent of one point to register 422 points, and the French “CAC” index fell. 0.3%, or equivalent to 16 points. , recording a volume of 6184 points.

The German “DAX” index was down 0.2%, or about 26 points, at 13,281 points, and the British “FTSE 100” index was down 0.4%, or the equivalent of 32 points, at 7,264 points.

In Japan, the Nikkei index rose 2.7% to 27,680 points, and the broader TOPICS index rose 2.3% to 1,946 points.