Pacquiao rings closing bell of New York Stock Exchange

Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao rang the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, September 4 (Friday, September 5, PHL time).

The closing bell signals the end of trading day at 4 p.m. NYSE floor managers usually ring the bell – a tradition that was broken only in 1995 when the exchange allowed celebrities and personalities to signal the closing of trades in the stock market.

"US stocks ended down on Thursday, retreating from intraday records for the S&P and Dow, as a decline in energy shares sapped an earlier rally following the European Central Bank's new stimulus measures," Reuters reported.
 
"The Dow and S&P 500 had touched record intraday highs after the ECB's surprise move, with the benchmark index hitting a high of 2,011.17 earlier in the session. All three main indexes pared gains in the afternoon as energy shares sunk with oil prices.
 
"The Dow Jones industrial average fell 8.7 points, or 0.05 percent, to 17,069.58. The S&P 500 was down 3.07 points, or 0.15 percent, to end at 1,997.65. The Nasdaq Composite lost 10.28 points, or 0.22 percent, to 4,562.29," Reuters added.

The NYSE appearance is the last stop of Pacquiao's press tour with Chris Algieri for their WBO welterweight championship fight in Macau this November. Also in the NYSE are their respective trainers and promoters.

A day before their NYSE event, Pacquiao and Algiere were in Los Angeles. – Trisha Macas/VS, GMA News Online