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Market indexes put on a display of strength to kick off a fresh week of trading — looking, perhaps, for a fourth-straight week in the green. This after a mixed start in pre-market trading, without a lot of shifting winds to change course. The Dow, which was down a couple hundred points early today, closed nearly +104, +0.30%, the S&P more than doubled this at +0.81%, the Nasdaq doubled the S&P at +1.90% (271 points), and the Russell 2000 grew +0.14%.
The Twitter news this morning, when it was reported Tesla (TSLA - Free Report) CEO Elon Musk was buying more than 9% of the social media platform. Twitter shares gained +27% on the day, helping the Nasdaq surge to its index-leading performance — which was also assisted by healthy trading from Microsoft (MSFT - Free Report) and salesforce (CRM - Free Report) .
On the other side, Starbucks’ (SBUX - Free Report) shares shed -3.7% on the day, as its third-time CEO Howard Schultz has announced it is cancelling its $20 billion share buyback program that had been touted just three weeks ago. Schultz’s declaration that Starbucks will instead invest in “people and stores,” suggesting the CEO is countering union-building measures among Starbucks’ workforce. We’ve seen similar phenomena at Amazon (AMZN - Free Report) , which is facing its own unionization challenges.
Defensive sectors — aside from the tech boost from the Twitter news today — continue to outperform the market. Utilities, Real Estate, Healthcare and Staples, to name but a few, led trading for the day. Thus, even though we’re experiencing sustained bullish sentiment in the market over the past near-month, we’re doing so adhering to our cyclical plays more so than our big growth names, at least at this stage of the rally.
Factory Orders for February were released this morning, and posted an expected negative figure that was not as low as analysts had predicted: -0.5%, from the +1.5% posted in January. We hadn’t seen a negative monthly Factory Orders number since the -0.1% reported in April 2021, and the 12-month trailing average sits at a solid +1.0%. Core Capital Equipment Orders, also for February, were also negative: -0.2% versus expectations of -0.3%.
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Indexes Start Another Week in the Green
Market indexes put on a display of strength to kick off a fresh week of trading — looking, perhaps, for a fourth-straight week in the green. This after a mixed start in pre-market trading, without a lot of shifting winds to change course. The Dow, which was down a couple hundred points early today, closed nearly +104, +0.30%, the S&P more than doubled this at +0.81%, the Nasdaq doubled the S&P at +1.90% (271 points), and the Russell 2000 grew +0.14%.
The Twitter news this morning, when it was reported Tesla (TSLA - Free Report) CEO Elon Musk was buying more than 9% of the social media platform. Twitter shares gained +27% on the day, helping the Nasdaq surge to its index-leading performance — which was also assisted by healthy trading from Microsoft (MSFT - Free Report) and salesforce (CRM - Free Report) .
On the other side, Starbucks’ (SBUX - Free Report) shares shed -3.7% on the day, as its third-time CEO Howard Schultz has announced it is cancelling its $20 billion share buyback program that had been touted just three weeks ago. Schultz’s declaration that Starbucks will instead invest in “people and stores,” suggesting the CEO is countering union-building measures among Starbucks’ workforce. We’ve seen similar phenomena at Amazon (AMZN - Free Report) , which is facing its own unionization challenges.
Defensive sectors — aside from the tech boost from the Twitter news today — continue to outperform the market. Utilities, Real Estate, Healthcare and Staples, to name but a few, led trading for the day. Thus, even though we’re experiencing sustained bullish sentiment in the market over the past near-month, we’re doing so adhering to our cyclical plays more so than our big growth names, at least at this stage of the rally.
Factory Orders for February were released this morning, and posted an expected negative figure that was not as low as analysts had predicted: -0.5%, from the +1.5% posted in January. We hadn’t seen a negative monthly Factory Orders number since the -0.1% reported in April 2021, and the 12-month trailing average sits at a solid +1.0%. Core Capital Equipment Orders, also for February, were also negative: -0.2% versus expectations of -0.3%.
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