All right,
no
other news. Everyone, I'm pressing shoulder
down here at the stock exchange
covenant House celebrating the close with a virtual ceremony
and winners of the Chicago innovation Awards.
Look at that up there with a packed floor at the NASDAQ
in Times Square.
Let's take a look at how the markets closed on this Friday,
rounding out what was a down week.
But certainly ending on a positive note, closing at our session highs
the Dow up 2.1% of 655 points.
Great bounce back from some of the losses that we saw earlier this week.
The S&P up close to 2% higher by 1.9% and the NASDAQ up 1.8%. So
even though we had some disappointing results from Jpmorgan yesterday,
we did actually see
the markets even though they closed mixed yesterday and near
session highs and then that momentum carrying into today.
So this is a positive,
certainly for the stock market, ken,
I know you talk about some of our stock standouts here in just a moment,
but certainly better than expected earnings from another bank this morning,
helping
positive consumer sentiment that rose a little bit,
of course,
in the wake of falling gas prices and then
retail sales showing that consumers are still spending.
So at least for now, we might be seeing a slowdown,
but still the consumer is acting
As if they are in an okay position.
Again, as household savings did rise collectively by more than $2 trillion dollars
during the first two years of this pandemic