Major indices up over 1.1%
The US stocks are starting the new quarter with a solid gain.
The major indices are ending with gains of overe 1.16% and near the highs for the day. The final numbers are showing the following:
- S&P index up 32.79 points or 1.16% ata 2867.19. The high reached 2869.40. The low reached 2848.63
- Nasdaq index up 99.589 points or 1.29% at 7828.91. The high reached 7831.45. The low extended to 7777.09
- Dow index is up 329.74 points or 1.27% at 26258.42. The high reached 26280.90. The low extended to 26071.69.
Some winners include financials on the back of sharply higher yields (10 year up 9.2 bps).
- PNC financial, +3.47%
- Citigroup, +3.46%
- Bank of America, +3.46%
- J.P. Morgan, +3.34%
- Morgan Stanley, +3.18%
- Goldman Sachs, +2.40%
Other big gainers today included:
- Wynn Resorts, +8.4%
- Alcoa, +4.62%
- Caterpillar, +3.51%
- Tesla, +3.33%
- United Technologies, +3.32%
- AMD, +3.29%
- Netflix, +2.92%
- Boeing, +2.74%
- Emerson, +2.41%
- Micron, +2.23%
- Adobe, +2.13%
- Home Depot, +2.0%
- 3M, +1.99%
Losers in the big up day include:
- Papa John’s, -1.98%
- General Mills, -1.49%
- Alibaba, -0.85%
- McDonald’s, -0.81%
- Celgene, -0.68%
- United health, -0.66%
- J&J, -0.62%
- Proctor and Gamble, -0.41%
- Coca-Cola, -0.34%
- Verizon, -0.10%