{"id":53932,"date":"2013-05-08T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T11:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/05\/08\/238379\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:04:31","slug":"dow-jones-closes-above-15000-as-world-shares-gain-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/05\/08\/53932\/","title":{"rendered":"Dow Jones closes above 15,000 as world shares gain :BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 8. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The Dow Jones index closed above 15,000 for the first time as strong German factory data pushed US and European share markets higher, BBC reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow rose 87 points to 15,056. It has been rising rapidly over the past six months, and was boosted by better-than-expected jobs figures last week.<\/p>\n<p>Other world markets also gained, with Germany&#8217;s Dax hitting a fresh record, rising 70 points to 8,182.<\/p>\n<p>Hopes of further central bank action to boost growth also lifted sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low 2.75%.<\/p>\n<p>This followed comments on Monday from Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, that the ECB stands &#8220;ready to act again&#8221; if necessary, after cutting interest rates last week.<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s FTSE 100 was up 0.6% and France&#8217;s Cac 40 rose 0.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 index went above 14,000 for the first time since mid-2008 as government efforts to weaken the yen boosted exporters. &#8211;0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow Jones index closed above 15,000 for the first time as strong German factory data pushed US and European share markets higher, BBC reported Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12147,9216],"tags":[13391,15753,12757],"class_list":{"0":"post-53932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bonds-am-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-dow-jones-3","10":"tag-usa"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}