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Late Equity Roundup: Real Estate Edges Past Consumer Discretionary

US STOCKS

Stock indexes hold modest gains in late trade - near middle of session range after extending lows for the week overnight, Real-Estate sector edging past Consumer Discretionary in the second half. Currently, SPX eminis trade +14.75 (0.36%) at 4145.25; DJIA +79.52 (0.24%) at 32990.25; Nasdaq +70.5 (0.6%) at 12452.11.

  • Notable earnings annc's after today's close: Salesforce.com (CRM) $1.028 est and Nvidia (NVDA) $0.532 est, Dell late Thursday $1.636 est.
  • SPX leading/lagging sectors: Real Estate outperformed in the second half (+0.81%) lead by Iron Mountain (IRM) +2.33%, Duke Realty (DRE) +1.96%, Prologis (PLD) +1.89%. Consumer Discretionary close behind (+0.61%) as consumer durables outpaced autos. Laggers: Materials (-0.04%), Utilities (+0.12%) and Information Tech (+0.15%) semiconductor share weighing on the latter.
  • Dow Industrials Leaders/Laggers: Salesforce.Com (CRM) +4.50 at 180.50, Boeing (BA) +2.55 at 162.62, Disney (DIS) +2.02 at 116.88. Laggers: seeing some profit taking after strong rally Tuesday, Caterpillar (CAT) -3.62 at 193.59, IBM -1.61 at 133.13 and Dow Inc (DOW) -1.46 at 54.16.

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