stock markets

Stocks gain as upbeat Wall Street earnings lift outlook

Reuters

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.

Stocks gain as upbeat Wall Street earnings lift outlook

NYSE. A trader works on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, New York City, August 5, 2021.

Andrew Kelly/Reuters

The Dow Jones and S&P 500 close at record highs on Monday, October 25, as traders look ahead to earnings reports

Global stocks rose and Treasury yields dipped on Monday, October 25, with major Wall Street benchmarks hitting fresh records, buoyed by a robust start to the US corporate earnings season and an improving economic outlook.

A large proportion of S&P 500 companies are due to report results this week, including technology heavyweights Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet, which have been the drivers of the market rally this year. The Dow Jones Industrials and S&P 500 closed at record highs on Monday as traders looked ahead to earnings reports.

“The number one thing is that earnings are better than expected and what’s more interesting is that as we approach the end of the year, we’re going to see forward guidance being lifted, which would make the market multiple more reasonable,” said Thomas Hayes, chairman of Great Hill Capital in New York.

The MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in 50 countries, rose 0.28%, while the pan-European STOXX 600 index gained 0.07%. In choppy trading on Monday, US Treasury yields were lower as uncertainty about when the Federal Reserve would raise rates to curb rising inflation weighed on market sentiment.

The benchmark US 10-year yield fell to 1.6325%. Last week, the 10-year yield hit 1.705%, the highest since mid-May.

The US dollar rose from a one-month low on Monday, ahead of central bank meetings and economic data coming later this week, boosted by the prospect of a tighter US monetary policy. The dollar index was up 0.178% at 93.828.

On Wall Street, the group of stocks with the highest gains were consumer discretionary, industrials, communication services, and technology stocks.

A string of solid quarterly earnings reports this month, including JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group and insurer Travelers Companies, have boosted market expectations.

Tesla, which jumped 12.66% and breached $1 trillion in market capitalization, also provided the biggest boost to the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.18% to 35,741.15, the S&P 500 gained 0.47% to 4,566.48, and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.9, to 15,226.71.

Oil prices rose on Monday and reached multi-year highs, as tight global supply and strengthening fuel demand in the United States and beyond supported prices.

Brent crude futures gained 0.43% to $85.90 a barrel, while the US West Texas Intermediate crude futures pared earlier gains and traded lower at 0.06% to $83.71 a barrel in early afternoon trading.

Gold prices rose nearly 1% on Monday, as a retreat in US bond yields and persistent worries about inflation lifted the safe-haven asset ahead of major central bank meetings this week.

Spot gold gained 0.85% to $1,807.7102 per ounce, while US gold futures for December delivery settled up 0.6% at $1,806.80 per ounce. – Rappler.com

Add a comment

Sort by

There are no comments yet. Add your comment to start the conversation.

Summarize this article with AI

How does this make you feel?

Loading
Download the Rappler App!