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 37946.71 +171.33 +0.45%
SP500 S&P 500 5011.02 -0.10 -0.00%
I:COMP NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX 15531.996313 -69.50 -0.45%

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. 181.25 +1.17 +0.65%
C CITIGROUP INC. 58.32 +0.15 +0.26%
CFG CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC. (RHODE ISLAND) 33.40 +0.50 +1.52%
WFC WELLS FARGO & CO. 58.74 +1.56 +2.73%

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. 157.57 +1.17 +0.75%
XOM EXXON MOBIL CORP. 118.52 -0.11 -0.09%
HAL HALLIBURTON CO. 38.65 +0.61 +1.60%

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. 157.46 +0.58 +0.37%
MSFT MICROSOFT CORP. 404.33 -7.51 -1.82%
AAPL APPLE INC. 167.04 -0.96 -0.57%

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. 149.90 -5.55 -3.57%

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%.