Chinese concept stocks rose in early Thursday: Qihoo 360 Rose 4.8%

Thursday Evening News of Beijing time, the U.S. stock market opened mixed. The ECB maintains benchmark interest rates unchanged, and president Draghi says he will start buying abs from quarter four. U.S. jobless claims last week were less than expected.

US-East Time October 2 09:31 (Beijing time October 2 21:31), the Dow Jones industrial average fell 15.9 points, reported 16,788.81, a decrease of 0.1%; The standard and poor 500 index fell 0.69, at 1, 945.47, or 0.04%; The Nasdaq composite index rose 1.6 points to 4,423.68, or 0.04%.

Chinese concept stocks rose in early Thursday. As of 21:53, the financial sector rose 0.54 U.S. dollars, reported 6.43 U.S. dollars, a gain of 9.17%, the Chinese star microelectronics rose 0.67 U.S. dollars, reported 10.51 U.S. dollars, the increase of 6.81%, Qihoo 360 rose 3.1 U.S. dollars, reported 66.99, the increase of 4.85%; Fell 0.4 U.S. dollars, reported 16.11 U.S. dollars, a decrease of 2.42%.

Qihoo 360 announced today that the company's Board of Trustees has authorized it to buy back up to 200 million US dollar Depository Shares (ADS). (Ye Wan)