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Weekly Market Wrap: May 1, 2015
updated Friday, May 1, 3:25 PM

The seventeenth full trading week of 2015 comes to a close with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and NASDAQ composite all higher at the close on Friday.

Most actively traded stocks include Bank of America (BAC) up 1.26%, Alcoa (AA) higher by 5.63%, Apple (AAPL) up 2.28%, and Twitter (TWTR) down 2.75%.

The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq Composite are all lower in the last five days of trading.

Crude oil futures are higher this week, trading at $59.16 per barrel on Friday afternoon.

And Gold futures are lower this week, trading at $1175.57 an ounce this afternoon.

In economic news, real gross domestic product -- the value of the production of goods and services in the United States, adjusted for price changes -- increased at an annual rate of 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent.

In the week ending April 25, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 262,000, a decrease of 34,000 from the previous week's revised level. This is the lowest level for initial claims since April 15, 2000 when it was 259,000. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 295,000 to 296,000. The 4-week moving average was 283,750, a decrease of 1,250 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 500 from 284,500 to 285,000.

In corporate dividend news, The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) declared a regular quarterly dividend of 33 cents per common share. The dividend is payable July 1, 2015 to shareowners of record as of June 15, 2015.

Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) declared a quarterly dividend of one dollar and seven cents ($1.07) per share, payable June 10, 2015, to holders of common stock as shown on the transfer records of the Corporation at the close of business on May 19, 2015.

Citigroup declared a quarterly dividend on Citigroup's common stock of $0.05 per share, payable on May 22, 2015 to stockholders of record on May 11, 2015.

ManpowerGroup (NYSE:MAN) has declared a semi-annual dividend of 80 cents per share, a 63 percent increase from the most recent dividend of 49 cents per share. The dividend is payable on June 15, 2015 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on June 1, 2015.

Honeywell (NYSE:HON) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.5175 per share on the company's outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on June 10, 2015 to shareowners of record at the close of business on May 21, 2015.

Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.09 per share. The dividend is payable to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 8, 2015 and will be paid on May 29th, 2015.

This is the 'Weekly Market Wrap' for Friday May 1, 2015.

Please join us on Monday for the Week Ahead Market Report.

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