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a U.S. jobs report, all of which the Fed will take into account when deciding on interest rates.
MARKET VIEW: “We’re just in one of those patches where there’s a lot of con icting signals coming through the markets and we’re stuck in the cross currents,” said Stephen Innes, senior trader at OANDA. “People are really having a tough time coming to grips and obviously the data points are going to be the
key pivot points” for market sentiment, he added.
WALL STREET: Major U.S. benchmarks had a mixed nish. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index retreated
from its record set a day earlier, down 0.1 percent to close at 2,475.42. The Nasdaq composite likewise fell from a record, down 0.6 percent to 6,382.19. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.4 percent to 21,796.55 to set another all-time high.
ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude dipped 5 cents to $48.99 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 29 cents to settle at $49.04 a barrel on Thursday. Brent crude, the international standard, slipped 5 cents to $51.47 a barrel.
CURRENCIES: The dollar weakened to 111.14 Japanese yen from 111.27 yen late Thursday. The euro rose to $1.1685 from $1.1679.
Today in History By The Associated Press
Today in History
Today is Friday, July 28, the 209th day of 2017. There are 156 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History:
On July 28, 1945, a U.S. Army B-25 bomber ying in heavy fog crashed into the 79th oor of New York’s
Empire State Building, killing all three people in the plane and 11 people in the building. The U.S. Senate rati ed the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2.
On this date:
In 1540, King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fth wife, Catherine Howard.
In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading gure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine. In 1821, Peru declared its independence from Spain.
In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
In 1932, federal troops forcibly dispersed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans who had
gathered in Washington to demand payments they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.
In 1959, in preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the rst Chinese-American, Republican Hiram L. Fong, to the U.S. Senate and the rst Japanese-American, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, to the
U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in
South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 “almost immediately.”
In 1976, an earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an of-
cial estimate.
In 1977, Roy Wilkins turned over leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People to Benjamin L. Hooks.
In 1984, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics opened.
In 1995, a jury in Union, South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her to
life in prison for drowning her two young sons (Smith will be eligible for parole in 2024).
In 2002, nine coal miners trapped in the ooded Quecreek (KYOO’-kreek) Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania,
were rescued after 77 hours underground.
Ten years ago: Vice President Dick Cheney, with a history of heart problems, had surgery to replace an
implanted device that was monitoring his heartbeat.
Five years ago: Syria’s government launched an offensive to retake rebel-held neighborhoods in the na-
tion’s commercial hub of Aleppo. At the London Olympics, Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen set the rst world