Wall Street opens sharply higher with eyes on Crimea; Kermit promotes new Muppet movie at NYSE
Reuters
2014-03-17
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STORY: Traders were seeing green at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as Kermit the Frog rang the opening bell on Monday (March 17).
Kermit was promoting his new film "Muppets Most Wanted" which opens in U.S. movie theaters on March 21st.
U.S. stocks rose sharply at the open, rebounding from a steep drop in the previous week, after Sunday's (March 16) referendum over whether Crimea will join Russia passed without violence.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 178.05 points or 1.11 percent, to 16,243.72, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 18.11 points or 0.98 percent, to 1,859.24 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 47.048 points or 1.11 percent, to 4,292.444.
STORY: Traders were seeing green at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as Kermit the Frog rang the opening bell on Monday (March 17).
Kermit was promoting his new film "Muppets Most Wanted" which opens in U.S. movie theaters on March 21st.
U.S. stocks rose sharply at the open, rebounding from a steep drop in the previous week, after Sunday's (March 16) referendum over whether Crimea will join Russia passed without violence.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 178.05 points or 1.11 percent, to 16,243.72, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 18.11 points or 0.98 percent, to 1,859.24 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 47.048 points or 1.11 percent, to 4,292.444.
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