Free Trial

Equities Roundup: Off Lows, Oil & Gas, Utilities Outperforming

US STOCKS
  • Stocks are trading near steady to mixed ahead midday, off early session lows with Nasdaq outperforming -- a relatively quiet session ahead of Wednesday's CPI and FOMC policy announcement.
  • Currently, the DJIA is down 72.56 points (-0.19%) at 38726.3, S&P E-Minis up 2.25 points (0.04%) at 5358, Nasdaq up 40.6 points (0.2%) at 17173.47.
  • Energy and and Utility sector shares outperformed in the first half, oil and gas shares supporting the former as crude prices continued to rise off last week's lows (WTI +1.15 at 76.68): EQT Corp +1.80%, APA +1.60%, Diamondback Energy +1.53%. Independent and electricity providers buoyed the Utility sector: Constellation Energy +5.85%, Vistra Corp +4.98%, AES +2.77%.
  • On the flipside, Financial and Consumer Staples sectors underperformed in the first half of trade, banks and financial services shares weighing on the former: Huntington Bancshares -6.53% after poor forward guidance, Regions Financial and Citizens Financial both -2.88% while KeyCorp declined 2.66%. Meanwhile, Consumer Staples weighed by food and beverage shares: Kraft-Heinz -3.11%, Brown-Forman and PepsiCo both -2.69%, Conagra Brands -2.59%.
  • Notable earnings releases this week include: Casey's General Store, Oracle, Broadcom, Adobe and Lennar Group.

To read the full story

Close

Why MNI

MNI is the leading provider

of intelligence and analysis on the Global Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange and Energy markets. We use an innovative combination of real-time analysis, deep fundamental research and journalism to provide unique and actionable insights for traders and investors. Our "All signal, no noise" approach drives an intelligence service that is succinct and timely, which is highly regarded by our time constrained client base.

Our Head Office is in London with offices in Chicago, Washington and Beijing, as well as an on the ground presence in other major financial centres across the world.