NEW YORK Camiseta Sergio Romero Mundial 2018 , Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks added gains Friday, with the S&P 500 closing at a record high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 18,000 for the first time in 2015, buoyed by upbeat eurozone growth data and a recovery in oil prices.


The S&P 500 climbed to a new all-time high of 2,097.03 points on Friday, before closing at a record of 2096.99 points, up 8.51 points, or 0.41 percent, with the energy sector rising 1.95 percent to lead gains.


The Dow increased 46.97 points, or 0.26 percent, to 18,019.35, above the round-number mark of 18,000 points for the first time this year.


The Nasdaq Composite Index extended gains after logging its highest level since March 2000 Thursday, up 36.22 points, or 0.75 percent, to 4,893.84.


Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.3 percent in the euro area during the fourth quarter of 2014, compared with the previous quarter, said the statistical office of the European Union on Friday. European equities advanced broadly on the better-than-expected economic data.


The German economy increased 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter after expanding 0.1 percent in the previous three months, while data from France showed a 0.1-percent growth.


Strengthening oil prices also provided upward jolts to the stock market. Brent crude rose above 60 dollars a barrel on Friday for the first time this year, as data showed more rigs were pulled out of oil fields in the United States this week.


Light, sweet crude for March delivery moved up 1.57 U.S. dollars to settle at 52.78 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for March delivery added 4. 47 dollars to close at 61.52 dollars a barrel.


Meanwhile, Wall Street continued to embrace the Ukraine ceasefire agreement, which boosted European and U.S. stocks Thursday. Russia President Vladimir Putin said he and leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine had agreed on the withdrawal of heavy weapons from Ukraine's frontlines and a ceasefire to begin from Feb. 15.


However, U.S. consumer sentiment came out lackluster in the day. The Thomson ReutersUniversity of Michigan's February reading of consumer sentiment index fell to 93.6 from January's 11-year high of 98.1, missing market expectations.


On a weekly basis, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq posted gains for a second straight week, up 1.1 percent, 2.0 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively.

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？3. Zapata Miguel, Spain, 15.200？


？4. Deng Shudi, China, 15.166.


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？6. Kim Hansol, South Korea, 14.933


？7. Larduet Manrique, Cuba, 14.800


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" WAN Optimization Accelerates Application Performance Published: 07.05.2010 | Author: jhonwilliamsd | Category: Networks

Faster application performance ensures that a business effectively renders quality services to its employees and customers. WAN optimization is essential to businesses that are using network applications at its headquarters to stay in touch with branches at remote locations through WAN. WAN optimization enhances the application performance by techniques like bandwidth management, caching, compression, and Protocol optimization and significantly accelerates application performance.


Benefits
Improves Productivity
Slow speed of application performance really hampers the employee productivity and customer satisfaction. Use of WAN optimization techniques accelerates the applications over the WAN, speeds up the data transfer and reduces the end-user application response time. This in turn makes transactions faster thereby leveraging the employee productivity. WAN optimization reduces the time taken to complete repetitive operations and helps in increasing employee productivity.


The employees waiting for long time to get a transaction done or download a file can not give prompt service to the customers and it results in unsatisfactory customer experience. By eliminating the network problems and reduced throughput, the remote employees can access the network applications that are installed on other locations at a faster rate. Accelerating the applications over the WAN also helps the mobile workers making it easy for them to cater their services to consumers.


Reduces Bandwidth Cost
Using WAN optimization techniques like bandwidth managementQoS, caching, compression, and Protocol optimization can significantly reduce the usage of bandwidth which in turn pulls down the network costs.


In Bandwidth Management, limits are set on network applications as to how much bandwidth they can use. This ensures maximum utilization of existing bandwidth by critical applications without providing additional bandwidth, saving considerable amount of money.


In Caching, the copies of important files are stored in multiple locations. The users need not have to download these large files every time thereby reducing the bandwidth utilization.


Protocol optimization decreases the transmission delays thereby increasing overall speed of transmission and transaction response.


Compression techniques help to reduce size of the data thus saving time of transmission. Compression helps to send data in a faster way thus increasing reducing load on communication links.


Compression and caching together help keep the communications link uncongested and reduces queuing delays.


All these factors reduce bandwidth usage which in turn reduces cost. WAN optimization allows users to access WAN applications at speeds similar to a LAN.


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