Stocks mixed as oil hits 3-year high

10-year yield climbs to highest level since June

U.S. stock indexes were mixed Monday as a critical week kicked off on Capitol Hill. 

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 72 points, or 0.21%, while the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite index declined 0.28% and 0.52%, respectively. 

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
I:DJI DOW JONES AVERAGES 46648.89 -28.96 -0.06%
SP500 S&P 500 6641.85 -30.77 -0.46%
I:COMP NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX 22107.929486 -204.05 -0.91%

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will have their hands full this week with expected votes on President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan, a bipartisan infrastructure deal and raising the debt ceiling all set to take place. 

Durable goods orders rose 1.8% last month, exceeding the 0.7% increase that analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting. Following the strong report, traders sold U.S. Treasurys, pushing the yield on the 10-year note up 3 basis points to 1.48%, a three-month high. 

In stocks, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Citizens Financial Group Inc. were among the names benefitting from rising bond yields and a steeper yield curve.

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
JPM JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 282.89 -4.63 -1.61%
C CITIGROUP INC. 105.50 -3.69 -3.38%
CFG CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC. (RHODE ISLAND) 56.08 -0.86 -1.51%
WFC WELLS FARGO & CO. 75.25 -1.63 -2.12%

Wells Fargo & Co. lagged in the financial space after saying it would pay $37.3 million to resolve claims that it fraudulently overcharged commercial clients for foreign exchange services.   

Oil-related names, including Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil Corp. and Haliburton Co., outperformed as West Texas Intermediate crude oil climbed $1.47 to $75.45 a barrel, the highest since October 2018. 

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
CVX CHEVRON CORP. 196.97 +5.18 +2.70%
XOM EXXON MOBIL CORP. 153.53 +1.95 +1.29%
HAL HALLIBURTON CO. 34.84 -1.09 -3.03%

Meanwhile, Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. were lower as growth areas were out of favor.  

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
GOOG ALPHABET INC. 303.21 -5.21 -1.69%
MSFT MICROSOFT CORP. 401.86 -3.02 -0.75%
AAPL APPLE INC. 255.76 -5.05 -1.94%

Tesla Inc. outperformed after reports said CEO Elon Musk sent a letter to employees telling them this is the company’s "most intense delivery week ever."

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
TSLA TESLA INC. 395.01 -12.81 -3.14%

Overseas markets were mixed. 

European trading was choppy as Germany’s DAX 30 advanced 0.27% after election results showed the center-left Social Democrats narrowly beat outgoing Chancellor Angel Merkel’s conservatives.

Elsewhere in the region, France’s CAC 30 rose 0.19% and Britain’s FTSE 100 added 0.17%. 

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In Asia, China’s Shanghai Composite index and Japan’s Nikkei 225 lost 0.84% and 0.03%, respectively, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index ticked up 0.07%.