The US markets made a good bounce back on Friday and all the major indices ended near the days high on getting upbeat economic data from Europe and after comments from St. Louis Fed President James Bullard that the central bank's aggressive easy money policy will stay for a 'long time.' There were some good earnings announcements that helped the markets gain strength, after the close of trading on Thursday, HP reported fiscal first quarter earnings that despite falling came better than estimates. The company also reported better than expected revenues and forecast second quarter earnings above expectations.
In Europe giving sign of German economic recovery, the Ifo Institute said its business climate index rose for the fourth straight month, climbing to 107.4 in February from 104.3 in January. With the increase, the index reached a ten-month high.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 119.95 points or 0.86 percent to 14,000.57, the Nasdaq jumped 30.33 points or 0.97 percent to 3,161.82 and the S&P 500 advanced 13.18 points or 0.88 percent to 1,515.60.
Most of Indian ADRs closed in green on Friday, HDFC Bank was up by 0.21%, ICICI Bank was up by 0.45%, Tata Motors was up by 0.22% and Infosys Technologies surged by 2.31%.
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