Monday's market wrap

  • 6 years ago
And these are your closing figures on the market,...
Wall Street powered higher for a second straight session on Monday,... with gains across the board as investors snapped up bargains after the biggest weekly drop in two years.
The Dow Jones jumped over 470 points, or a little less than two-percent,... to close at 24,601, while the S&P 500, gained around one-percent to finish at 2,656.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq popped over one-and-a-half percent higher at 6,981-point-9.
Korea's markets had solid sessions on Monday,... pushed up by gains on Wall Street the week before.
The benchmark KOSPI rose 21 points,... or little less than one percent to close at 2,385-point-3.
The junior bourse KOSDAQ,... finishing the day at 843-point-2,... up less than one-tenth of a percent.