U.S. stock indexes advanced on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose four-tenths of a percent to close at 12,639. The S&P 500 moved up four-tenths of a percent to end at 1,340 while the NASDAQ jumped nearly half a percent to 2,828.
Stocks ended higher in Europe. London’s Financial Times index closed up one percent to finish at 5,977. The CAC-40 index in Paris advanced 1.3 percent to close at 4,058. The DAX index in Frankfurt ended up 1.6 percent to finish the day’s trading at 7,492.
In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei index dropped 1.5 percent to finish at 9,859. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost four-tenths of a percent to end at 23,159.
The price of gold was up more than $18 to trade at $1,492.68 an ounce.
The dollar was higher against the euro and the yen
