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Equities Roundup: Miners, Chip Stocks Outperforming

US STOCKS
  • Stocks are trading firmer at midday, S&P Eminis and Nasdaq indexes marking new all-time highs for the seventh consecutive session (5,652.75 and 18,527.00 respectively, the dow still well off +40,000 mid-May highs) after Fed Chairman Powell repeated his balanced testimony to Congress. Currently, the DJIA trades up 135.05 points (0.34%) at 39429.04, S&P E-Minis up 25 points (0.44%) at 5656, Nasdaq up 115.2 points (0.6%) at 18544.91.
  • Materials and Information Technology sectors led gainers in the first half, metals and mining stocks buoyed the former: Newmont Corp +4.10%, Steel Dynamics +2.17%, Freeport-McMoRan +1.97%, Nucor +1.75%.
  • Semiconductor makers underpinned the IT sector: AMD +3.75%, ON Semiconductor +3.39%, Micron +3.1%
  • On the flipside, Real Estate and Financial sectors underperformed, investment trusts weighing on the former: Welltower -1.70%, UDR Inc -1.47%, SBA Communications -1.33%.
  • Financial services shares weighed on the Financial sector: Mastercard -2.82%, Fiserv Inc -2.69%, Jack Henry & Assc -2.33%; while banks continued to make modest gains ahead Friday's start of the latest earnings cycle.

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