Diamond Offshore rose $1, or 5 percent, to $21.30.
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Hiddink: Chelsea players should look in the mirror
Hiddink reiterated his admiration for Drogba, but insisted the club’s board would handle any extra back-room recruits. Hiddink said at his first press conference on Wednesday: “I shouldn’t be here halfway through the season”.
Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 621 points in two days before the rebound.
India lowers crime trial age to 16 after Delhi gang rape furore
On Tuesday, the Juvenile Justice Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the parliament. The parents had led protests calling for the bill to be amended, labelling the existing law as too weak.
The S&P 500 ended 0.8% higher, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average leapt about 123 points.
Sasha Pieterse Just Got Engaged to Hudson Sheaffer!
When asked to clarify if she “definitely” wanted PLL to be over after next season, the series creator replied, “Correct”.
US stocks posted moderate gains, recovering a small portion of the big losses recorded late last week.
Wall Street’s rally slowed through Monday afternoon as crude oil prices continued be a drag investor enthusiasm, but then accelerated again at the close. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 15 points, or 0.8 percent, to 2,036 and the Nasdaq composite was up 19 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,988. It remains 1 percent lower for 2015 after hitting an all-time high in May and then plummeting in August over trouble in China’s stock market. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite also climbed 0.3%.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index, which had fallen 1.2 percent on Monday, rose 0.3 percent, while the euro zone’s blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 index was up 0.1 percent.
Trading volumes are expected to be light for the rest of the week, with USA stock markets operating a shortened session on Thursday and closing on Friday for Christmas. Newfield Exploration dropped 4 percent and ConocoPhillips fell 2 percent. Investors have already had plenty of time to digest this month’s major decisions by the Federal Reserve to raise rates and by the European Central Bank to increase its stimulus efforts.
Shares in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) rose 0.6% to US$106.62 after it announced a settlement with Ericsson (ADR) (NASDAQ:ERIC) in a mobile phone patent dispute.
Earlier on Tuesday the US Commerce Department trimmed third-quarter economic growth to a 2 percent annual pace from the 2.1 percent estimated earlier.
At this point, many fund managers and traders have closed their books for 2015.
CURRENCIES: The dollar was up slightly against the yen at 121.02 from 121.01 in the previous day’s trading.
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“Today’s calendar is relatively light, and with liquidity getting thinner over the course of the week, the potential for exaggerated moves is very real”, said Chris Beauchamp, senior market analyst at IG.
