In the early morning of the 9th, Beijing time, U. S. stocks closed higher on Thursday, after the S & P 500 index fell for five consecutive days. Investors are still assessing the risk of a future recession in the United States and are waiting for Friday's PPI inflation data and next week's Fed monetary policy meeting.

The Dow rose 183.56 points, or 0.55%, to 33781.48; the Nasdaq rose 123.45, or 1.13%, to 11082.00; and the S & P 500 rose 29.59, or 0.75%, to 3963.51.

By Thursday, the S & P 500 had fallen for a fifth day in a row, compared with eight in the previous nine.

Executives at US banks have warned that the US economy is slowing. Jane Fraser, chief executive of Citi, said the US economy could fall into recession in the second half of next year. JPMorgan Chase & Co and Goldman Sachs Group executives also hold a similar view.

According to a report by Nicholas Colas, founder of research firm DataTrek, the model of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to measure the likelihood of a recession suggests that there is almost a 100% chance that the US economy will fall into recession next year as a result of the Fed's interest rate hike.

On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department reported that initial jobless claims for the week ended Dec. 3 were 230000, compared with an expected 230000, compared with a previous value of 225000. The number of renewed claims for unemployment benefits in the week ended November 26 was 1.671 million, with an expected value of 1.6 million, compared with a previous value of 1.608 million. The four-week average of initial jobless claims in the week ended December 3 was 230000, compared with a previous value of 228750.

Top US stock turnover on Thursday$Tesla (TSLA.US)$It closed down 0.34% to close at US $16.8 billion.Musk has reportedly brought Zhu Xiaotong, president of Tesla, Inc. Greater China, to Texas to help run Tesla, Inc. 's super factory in Austin, the state. Zhu Xiaotong arrived in Austin this week and brought some members of the Chinese engineering team to help monitor capacity expansion, the report said. It is not clear how long Mr Zhu will stay in Austin or whether he will retain his duties in Asia, according to people familiar with the matter.

It was also reported that Musk briefly lost his position as the richest man in the world on Wednesday and was overtaken by the boss of LV. Although Musk soon regained his position as the richest man, he was worth only a few hundred million dollars more than LV's boss. In November 2021, Musk was once worth as much as $320 billion. But Tesla, Inc. 's share price has fallen 50 per cent since Mr Musk started buying Twitter in April. Musk's fortune has shrunk by more than $135 billion, or more than 940 billion yuan, since his peak.

Second place$Apple (AAPL.US)$It closed 1.21% higher, with a turnover of $8.85 billion.It is reported that Twitter will increase the pricing of its Blue V (Twitter Blue) subscription service for users registered with Apple Inc's iPhone. Twitter will charge $7 a month if users subscribe to Blue V certification online, but $11 a month if they subscribe through App Store, according to people familiar with the matter. The previous fee for Blue V certification was $8 a month.

The report also noted that Twitter had informed its employees that the Blue V certification would be relaunched on Friday (December 9). The service has been problematic when it was launched earlier this year.

It is speculated that the price increase on Apple Inc users is likely to be a response to Apple Inc's 30 per cent commission on the purchase of services in his iOS app. Earlier, Musk had publicly complained about the "Apple Inc tax", saying that Apple Inc had basically stopped advertising on Twitter and threatened to remove Twitter from its app store.

Third place$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$It closed 6.51% higher, with a transaction of $8.63 billion.It is reported that NVIDIA Corp is preparing for a price reduction for RTX4080 graphics cards, which is expected to be announced in mid-December, and the final price may be close to AMD's upcoming RX7900XTX. The official price of AMD RX 7900XTX is 7999 yuan, while the price of RTX4080 is 9499 yuan.

In fourth place, Amazon.Com Inc closed 2.14% higher, with a turnover of US $6.59 billion. Alphabet Inc-CL C-C, owned by Alphabet Inc, and $Oracle Corp, Amazon.Com Inc and Microsoft Corp will share a $9 billion hybrid contract to provide global security cloud services to the Pentagon, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. According to the Pentagon's daily contract announcement, Alphabet, Oracle Corp, Microsoft Corp and Amazon.Com Inc jointly provide their Joint Operations Cloud capability (Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability) to the Department of Defense, which will be carried out in Reston, Virginia, and completed by June 8, 2028.

In fifth place, Microsoft Corp closed 1.24% higher, with a turnover of US $5.58 billion. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has confirmed that it is seeking to block Microsoft Corp's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying it will sue Microsoft Corp over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard as soon as December 8 and will soon provide a copy of the administrative complaint. The agency said Microsoft Corp may have the ability and motivation to undermine market competition, and Microsoft Corp has made it clear that he will retain content from game competitors.

FTC said the marriage of Xbox console makers and popular game publishers would hurt competition and wanted to block Microsoft Corp's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Regulators say Microsoft Corp's control of Activision Blizzard could prevent competitors from visiting the company's heavyweight games and stifle competition in a game market worth more than $200 billion.

The seventh place Meta Platforms closed up 1.23%, with a turnover of US $3.54 billion.

Meta Platforms's virtual reality helmet was forced to stop sale after the government's antitrust intervention in Germany. According to the latest news, Meta's virtual reality headset is ready to go back to retail stores in Germany for the first time in two years.

In ninth place, BABA gained 6.61%, with a turnover of US $2.72 billion.

In 12th place, Exxon Mobil Corp received an increase of 0.74%, with a turnover of US $2.22 billion. The company said its share buyback program would expand to $50 billion by 2024, including $15 billion in 2022. Costs are expected to be cut by about $9 billion by the end of 2023. Dividends to shareholders are expected to be about $30 billion by the end of 2022. The company expects a cash surplus of $100 billion by 2027 if Brent crude is priced at $60 a barrel.

Pinduoduo ranked 14th with a 6.16% increase in revenue and a turnover of US $1.55 billion.

Activision Blizzard closed down 1.54% at No. 16, with a turnover of $1.44 billion. The US Federal Trade Commission confirmed that it was seeking to block Microsoft Corp's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying the deal would "enable Microsoft Corp to suppress competitors in his Xbox game console, fast-growing subscription content and cloud games business".

"by controlling Activision's game license, Microsoft Corp will have the means and motivation to manipulate Activision's pricing, reduce Activision's game quality or players' experience on competitors' consoles and game services, change the terms and timing of Activision's content, or not provide content to competitors at all, thereby harming consumers," FTC said.

Broadcom Ltd, 16th, closed 2.43% higher with a turnover of US $1.45 billion. Broadcom Ltd's fourth-quarter adjusted net income is $8.93 billion, analysts expect $8.9 billion; fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share are $10.45, analysts expect $10.25; fourth-quarter semiconductor solutions revenue is $7.09 billion. Analysts expect $7.01 billion; first-quarter revenue is expected to be about $8.9 billion, while analysts expect $8.8 billion.

In 20th place, Pfizer Inc closed 3.07% higher, with a turnover of US $1.34 billion. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the emergency use authorization of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's Omicron ba.4/ba.5 adaptive bivalent COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5 years of age.

The following are the 20 most actively traded stocks of the day (by turnover):