Wall Street collapses.

Keywords: markets, scholarship, conjuncture, Wall Street.

The Greek parliament adopted the austerity plan anguish U.S. investors rather than reassuring. The decline is accelerating: the Dow Jones fell more than 8%.
The concern is strongest on Wall Street. While the Greek parliament adopted the austerity measures needed to pay using the EU and IMFWall Street plunges. Around 8:48 p.m., the Dow Jones let go and the Nasdaq 8.68% 8.85%.
"The situation in Europe has a low potential impact on the U.S. recovery. But this remains an important market for import and export for many countries and the euro is the second currency of international transactions, "says Fred Dickson, chief investment strategist at Davidson Cos..
On the foreign exchange market, The euro fell to a new low since March 12, 2009 at 1.2752 dollar, while Greek crisis never fails to stir the market. Investors were disappointed by Decision of the ECB to keep interest rates unchangedWhile some wanted the European monetary authority takes steps to stem a possible spillover of the crisis of Greek debt to other countries in the euro area.
Andfences are in the bright red of European markets do not help matters.
As for its macroeconomic indicators, good news came on the employment front. Entries weekly unemployment declined in the United States during the first week in May, against 444,000 451,000 the previous week, according to the Department of Labor. Economists had expected jobless claims averaged 440,000.
In addition, productivity gains of U.S. companies have been higher than expected first quarter. Productivity increased 3.6% over the fourth quarter, while analysts expected an increase of 2.5%.

Freddie Mac and distributors in the viewfinder:
On the side of values, Freddie Mac has asked yesterday in federal funding additional 10.6 billion dollars in U.S. Treasury. At the end of 2008, the Treasury has pledged to cover an unlimited losses for Freddie and Fannie until 2012. This new application brings to more than $ 61.3 billion total spent on federal aid to rescue Freddie Mac. In trading, the shares drop 4.20% to $ 1.37.
Distributors Costco Wholesale Corp. and Gap reported sales difficult last month, up just 0.5% for the first and were down 3% for the second comparable basis. Consequence: their respective securities fell 3.02% to 58.54 dollars and 3.32% to 23.86 dollars.
In their wake, Target was down 0.02% after publishing sales down 5.9% in April against 2.3% expected by the markets.
The telecom equipment supplier, JDS Uniphase (-14.74% To 11.71 dollars) has announced a loss of 11.9 million (101.7 million against last year). The sales were above expectations at 332.3 million dollars. The company said stronger growth in its order book for 2 years in the first quarter
The publisher of software security Symantec (4.92% to 17.05 dollars) announced a profit of 184 million dollars and the video game publisher, THQ, significantly reduced its losses to 10.4 million against a deficit of nearly $ 100 million a year last.
Group CBS (-1.86% To 15.29 dollars) recorded a loss of posting $ 26.2 million for a turnover of 3.16 billion.