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Equities Roundup: Off Lows, Consumer Disc, IT Sectors Outperforming

US STOCKS
  • Stocks trading mixed/off lows, weaker DJIA underperforming S&P and Nasdaq indexes at midday. The week's corporate earnings ran their course this morning, oil stocks weaker after Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Phillips 66 all missed est's after weaker Q3 profits. Currently, DJIA is down 187.41 points (-0.57%) at 32602.8, S&P E-Mini futures down 0.5 points (-0.01%) at 4156.25, Nasdaq up 114.3 points (0.9%) at 12711.53.
  • Laggers: Energy and Health Care sectors underperformed in the first half, oil and gas shares weighed on the former: Chevron -5.56%, Hess Energy -5.15%, EQT Corp -2.75%.
  • Pharmaceutical and biotech shares weighed on the Health Care sector: Bio-Rad -7.46%, AbbVie -5.23% (despite beating earnings ests and hiking Q4 guidance), Moderna and Bristol-Myers both -3.38%.
  • Leaders: Recovering from midweek selling, Consumer Discretionary and Information Technology sectors outperformed in the first half, broadline retailers buoyed the former: Amazon +8.4% after beating Q3 estimates and raising forward guidance late Thu), Estsy +2.02% while CarMax gained 1.61%.
  • Chip stocks buoyed the IT sector: Intel +9.35% also after beating Q3 estimates and raising forward guidance late Thu, Juniper Networks +6.65%, Seagate +4.45%.

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