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Late Equities Roundup: Utilites, Financials Outperforming

US STOCKS
  • Stocks holding mildly higher in late trade, cautious in extending recent all-time highs ahead tomorrow's key UK CPI inflation data and the May 1 FOMC minutes. Currently, the DJIA is up 20.92 points (0.05%) at 39829.47 (40073.06 high), S&P E-Minis up 3.75 points (0.07%) at 5335.5 (5348.25 high), Nasdaq up 11 points (0.1%) at 16806.01 (16804.15 high).
  • Utilities and Financial sectors continued to lead gainers in late trade, shares of electricity and independent power providers outperforming: Constellation Energy +2.5%, Vistra +2.02%, CenterPoint Energy +0.93%. Banks supported the Financial sector as they recovered some ground lost on Monday: JPM +1.6% (-3.57% Monday after Dimon commented would not buy back shares at current levels), Citigroup +1.59%, Wells Fargo +1.43%.
  • Laggers: Energy and Industrial sectors underperformed in late trade, oil and gas shares weighing on the former: Coterra Energy -1.86%, EQT Corp -1.19%, Marathon Oil -0.98%. Ground transportation shares weighed on the Industrials sector: JB Hunt -3.07%, Union Pacific -3.6%, CH Robinson -2.24%.
  • Reminder: a few late cycle corporate earnings still expected this week: Target, Petco, Analog Devices, Toll Brothers, TJX, Synopsys, Nvidia (after market Wednesday), Autodesk, Dollar Tree Inc.

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