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The market mood turned jittery after Monday’s rebound, with index futures trading on either side of the unchanged line early Tuesday. The apprehensions reflect uncertainties regarding geopolitics, monetary policy, and the health of the reporting season ahead of earnings from AI stalwart Alphabet, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) and electric-vehicle giant Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA). The Google-parent’s earnings could be seen as a foretaste of what is to come from the rest of the AI-levered stocks.
Earnings news has been mixed. The tidings on the economic front are scarce, with only a housing market report due for the day. That said, traders may choose to remain cautious ahead of some key readings, including Friday’s inflation data.
Futures | Performance (+/-) |
Nasdaq 100 | -0.02% |
S&P 500 | +0.08% |
Dow | +0.11% |
R2K | +0.23% |
Stocks went racing higher on Monday as traders assessed the implications of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race and looked ahead optimistically to the week’s earnings report. Beaten-down tech stocks spearheaded the recovery on a day when most S&P 500 sector indices, barring energy and consumer staples, advanced.
The major averages opened higher, with the Nasdaq Composite Index and the S&P 500 Index moving roughly sideways with strong gains for the rest of the session. In the process, the former broke back above the 18,000 barrier. The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced some volatility in the morning before moving decisively into the positive terrain and ending modestly higher.
Small-caps resumed their rally, with the Russell 2,000 Index outperforming the major averages.
Index | Performance (+/-) | Value |
Nasdaq Composite | +1.58% | 18,007.57 |
S&P 500 Index | +1.08% | 5,564.41 |
Dow Industrials | +0.32% | 40,415.44 |
Russell 2000 | +1.66% | 2,220.65 |
Insights From Analysts:
Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel, Senior Economist to WisdomTree, commented on the dramatic shifts within the equity market, the ones happening among small- and large-cap stocks, as well as value and growth stocks. The strength in the small-cap stocks following favorable inflation data indicates a market highly responsive to even subtle shifts in monetary policy expectations, he said.
The economist said, “There remains strong fundamental support for large caps—their earnings expectations have increased much more than small caps.” If the recent shifting tides were to sustain and last long “we will also need to see small and value stocks further reverse the huge gains in growth stocks over the previous three months,” he said.
The professor also weighed in on the U.S. election landscape. Biden's exit from the race makes Vice President Kamala Harris a virtual certain nominee, she said. The betting markets predict a close race between Harris and Trump but the former still may not beat the latter, he said.
“However, the probability that the House goes Democratic has increased, and the prospects of a split government is encouraging to stock investors,” Siegel said.
In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Tom Lee, Head of Research at Fund Strat, reiterated his call for a 40% rally in small-caps by the end of the summer. He remised his call on the relatively higher sensitivity of these stocks to a Fed rate cut and the probability of it.
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Crude oil futures fell further toward the $78-a-barrel mark and gold futures advanced. The 10-year Treasury yield fell 3.1 points to 4.228%. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fell below the $67K mark, while Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) rose modestly as the SEC approved Ethereum ETFs, which could begin trading as early as Tuesday.
Asian stocks traded mixed once again, with the Chinese and Hong Kong markets pulling back notably, while the Japanese, Indian and Indonesian markets ended slightly lower. The rest of the major markets in the region advanced, tracking the positive lead from Wall Street overnight amid the tech rebound.
European stocks were firmly in the green in early trading.
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