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U.S. Indices closed sharply higher on Monday, with the S&P 500 reclaiming 6,700, posting broad-based gains, though the NASDAQ 100 outperformed as AI names clawed back some recent losses. Communications jumped 4%, led by Alphabet after more upbeat commentary on...
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U.S. Indices began Friday on the back foot and continued on the NVIDIA (NVDA) weakness seen on Thursday, but swiftly turned around, which was largely supported by a surprisingly dovish Williams. The New York Fed President said, in his view, the Fed can still cut rates...
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U.S. Indices saw heavy losses on Monday, with all sectors, aside from Communications and Utilities, in the red. There was no one specific catalyst for the risk-off trade to start the week, just further concerns regarding elevated valuations in the AI space, while the...
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U.S. Indices closed mixed following a volatile trading that witnessed plenty of two-way price action. Equity futures started the day in the red with a lot of weakness in the tech sector, once again following a soft handover from Asia into Europe, with European indices...
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U.S. Indices closed mixed as the risk tone was mixed on Wednesday, with European Indices rallying across the board, but US Indices were mixed. The SPX, NDX, and RUT closed little changed, but the Dow Jones again saw strong outperformance thanks to upside in...
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U.S. Indices reversed initial losses seen in what was a day of two halves. At the cash open, and US equity futures prior to it, weakness was seen, which was led by CoreWeave cutting revenue guidance, and Softbank selling its whole stake in NVIDIA. While both those...
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U.S. Indices closed the first trading session of the week in the green amid risk-on sentiment as the US Senate took the first steps over the weekend to end the US government shutdown, alongside continued positive US/China trade developments. Sectors are predominantly...
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It was a choppy session to end the week with Thursday’s risk-off tone initially seeping into Friday’s trade amid ongoing concerns over AI valuations and following more weak data with the University of Michigan Consumer Survey painting a bleak picture of consumer...
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U.S. Indexes ended Wednesday’s session with notable gains after a downbeat start as initial AMD weakness post-earnings weighed with investors touting lofty valuations, but this soon pared. Sectors were mainly green with Communication Services and Consumer...
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U.S. Indexes closed, led by the 2% fall in the NASDAQ 100 lagging. Technology was the clear sectoral laggard, weighed by weakness in Palantir (-8%) post-earnings, which also weighed on other AI plays, such as NVDA (-4%). Back to PLTR, they reported a stellar quarter...
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U.S. Indexes closed mixed, with the NASDAQ 100 outperforming while both the Rusell and Dow lagged. Upside in the S&P and NASDAQ was primarily due to the heavy cap tech stocks, with Amazon (AMZN) lifting the Indices after it inked a USD 38 billion deal with OpenAI...
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U.S. Indexes closed mixed when looking on a sector basis, as Consumer Discretionary surged thanks to Amazon’s 10% rally on a profit, revenue, and AWS beat. In tech, Apple was marginally higher but reversed earlier gains to close 0.5% lower as participants...
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U.S. Indexes, Treasuries, and Gold saw notable selling, while the U.S. Dollar soared in the wake of a very hawkish Powell at the Fed press conference. In the decision beforehand, it cut rates by 25 basis points, as expected, to 3.75-4%, albeit in a 10-2 decision....
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U.S. Indexes closed at new all-time highs, led by all three American Indexes with NVIDIA largely responsible for the move as breadth across sectors was poor. NVIDIA’s (NVDA, +5%) gains came amid CEO Huang’s keynote address at GTC, where new lines of...
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