U.S. Health Care Stocks Reach Records as Major Indexes Rise
U.S. health care stocks climbed to record highs by midday Tuesday. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% to 7,713 and the Dow gained 0.9% to 52,424, while the Nasdaq 100 was little changed.
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U.S. health care stocks climbed to record highs by midday Tuesday. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% to 7,713 and the Dow gained 0.9% to 52,424, while the Nasdaq 100 was little changed.
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U.S. stocks diverged at midday Monday, with the Nasdaq 100 up 1.7% and S&P 500 up 0.7% as technology shares rebounded; the Dow hovered near flat. Cleveland-Cliffs surged 16.0% after third-quarter adjusted EPS of $0.28 topped the $0.21 consensus, with fourth-quarter EBITDA guidance above $700 million.
The Nasdaq 100 fell 1.3%, or 400 points, to about 29,535 at midday Friday as CoreWeave dropped 9.3% amid lingering AI-infrastructure debt concerns. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3%, while the Dow rose 0.3%.
U.S. stocks diverged by midday Thursday: the Dow gained about 459 points to 52,080, while the Nasdaq 100 fell 0.6% to about 29,783. The report cited hot inflation and rate-hike fears alongside a sell-off in chip and AI-hardware stocks.
Midday Pulse: S&P 500 top intraday gainers
September CPI rose 3.7% year over year, above the 3.6% forecast and up from 3.4% in August. By midday, the Nasdaq 100 was down 1.0%, the S&P 500 fell 0.7%, and the 2-year Treasury yield had risen 14 basis points to 4.93%.
U.S. semiconductor shares fell as China’s CXMT announced progress on a more efficient memory-cell design, following a 5% drop in South Korea’s KOSPI. Applied Materials fell 6.5% and Micron dropped 4.9%; the S&P 500 was down 0.2% and the Nasdaq 100 fell 0.5% by midday.
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