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 % |
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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 % |
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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 % |
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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 % |
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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 % |
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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%.