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ESA Holding Majority Of Its Gains After Earlier Opening Of Key Resistance

US STOCKS
  • Equities have pared a large part of the recent slip, which had appeared order-related with the largest sell programs on the TICK index since Nov 16 with close to 1,000 names.
  • It leaves the S&P e-mini holding +0.3% gains, underperforming a string of other indices with Nasdaq +0.4%, Dow Jones +0.4% and the Russell 2000 +0.5% (all e-minis).
  • The earlier high for the S&P e-mini of 4580.5 cleared resistance at 4571 (Nov 20 high) to open a key resistance at 4597.5 (Sep 1 high).
  • SPX gains are led by communication services (+0.8%, driven by 1% or greater gains in Meta and Alphabet) and consumer staples (+0.7%). Intra-session gains have also been helped by a paring of earlier losses for Nvidia (-2.1%) following yesterday’s earnings.
  • Energy (-0.3%) lags but having pared earlier losses with the sizeable rebound in WTI front futures.

S&P e-miniSource: Bloomberg

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