U.S. stock market indexes rose in Thursday’s trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced six-tenths of a percent to end at 12,124. The S&P 500 rose seven-tenths of a percent to close at 1,289 and the NASDAQ composite index gained a third of a percent to finish at 2,685.
European stock markets were higher at the close of trading. London’s Financial Times 100 index gained eight-tenths of a percent to end at 5,856. The CAC-40 in Paris moved up 1.1 percent to finish at 3,879, and the DAX index in Frankfurt jumped 1.4 percent to 7,160.
Earlier in Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei index gained two-tenths of a percent to close at 9,467. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost two-tenths of a percent to finish the day’s trading at 22,610.
The price of gold rose more than $6 to trade at $1,544.20 an ounce.
The dollar was higher against the yen and the euro.
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