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Stocks ended Monday mixed and Treasury yields retreated after the 10-year note breached 5% for the first time since 2007 at the start of a week crammed with corpor🙈ate earnings and majo𝓀r inflation data.
The Nasdaq closed 0.3% higher, while the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:S&P 500 slipped 0.2% and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.6%.
Markets were on edge at the open after the yield on the 10-year Treasury passed 5%, reaching a 16-year high as markets priced in the likelihood of interest rates staying higher for longer amid sticky inflation and a resilient economy. Investors will get a better idea of just how sticky inflation is when the September Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE)ꦓ Price Index, the🤪 Fed's preferred iജnflation gauge, is released Friday.
In corporate news, Chevron (CVX) will buy Hess (HES) for $53 billion in the second major oil deal to be announced this month. Microsoft (MSFT), Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL), Visa (V), Meta Platforms (META), and Amazon (AMZN) will all report quarterly earnings this week.
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S&P 500 Gains and Losses Today
Here are the S&P 500 stocks that gained and lost the most today, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the storie🐼s behind the market movers.
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Dow Falls for F꧃ourth Straight Day on Treasury Yield Fears
The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dow Jones Industrial Average fe⛦ll 191 points, or about 0.6%, in its fourth straight session of losses.
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) shares jumped 3.3% after JPMorgan Chase upgraded the stock to “Overweight” from “Neutral” and raised its price target to $30 from $27, citing optimism about the te🌞nure of new CEO Tim Wentworth, who fo𒀰rmally stepped into that role today.
American Express (AXP) shares rose 2.1%, rebounding from last week’s losses on an earnings report that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:showed record revenue, but also an increase in provisions for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:delinquencies.
Walmart (WMT) shares moved higher by 1.4% while Microsoft (MSFT) gained 0.8%.
Chevron (CVX) shares fell nearly 3.7% after it announced it would acquire Hess (HES) for $53 billion in an all-stock deal, giving the oil giant a 澳洲幸运5𓆏开奖号码历史查询:stake in offshore developmen🍸t projects in Guyana. Shareholders of Hess will receive 1.025 Chevron shares, equivalent to nearly $171 a share. Hess shar🧔es declined about 1.2% to trade at over $161 a share.
Shares of Intel (INTC) dropped 3.1% on reports Nvidia (NVDA) is using Arm Holdings Plc (ARM) designs to develop a central processing unit for personal computers, a direct challenge to Intel’s business. Nvidia shares jumped 3.8% on the news while 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:American depositary receipts of Arm gained more than 4.9%.
Amgen (AMGN) shares declined 2.1% while Dow Inc. (DOW) moved lower by 1.5%.
Salesforce (CRM) shares fell 0.8% after P🧸iper Sandler downgraded it to “Neutral” from “Overweight,” citing uncertainty about the company’s ability to monetize artificial 𝓰intelligence and growing merger strategy and execution risks.
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Energy Sector Slumps on Falling Oil Prices
Oil and gas companies were some of the market's worst-performing stocks Monday as oil prices fell while investors kept a close eye on the Middle East.
West Texas Intermediate fu♋tures lost 2.5% Monday, falling to about $86 a barrel. Brent crude futures dropped to about $90.
Shares in oil giants followed prices lower. Chevron Corp. (CVX) fell nearly 4% the same day it announced its $53 billion acquisition of Hess Corp. (HES). ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM) stock dropped almost 2%, and Occidental Petroleum Corp. (OXY) fell 4%.
Roivant Sciences Sells Joint Venturꦆe With Pfizer to Roche for $7.1 Billion
London-based biotech firm Roivant Sciences (ROIV) 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:agreed to sell ♚its Telavant Holdings un൩it, which is co-owned by Pfizer (PFE), to Roche Holding for $7.1 billion.
The deal gives Roche development, manufacturing, and commercialization rights in the U.S. and Japan for its experimental RVT-3001 antibody treatment for patients with infl🌼ammatory bowel disease, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. RVT-3001 showed success in a Phase 2b study, and Roche is expected to begin a Phase 3 study as soon as possible.
Shares of Roiva♋nt Sciences lost ♑ground and were down more than 8% Monday afternoon, while Pfizer shares advanced 1%.
-Bill McColl
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Bitcoin Passes $31,000 as Mark🌌ets Anticipate ETF Approval
The price of Bitcoin rose nearly 4% Monday to more than $31,000, its highest since July, amid optimism the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will soon approve a spot Bitcoin exchange-tradಞed fund.
Several major money man🐲agers, including BlackRock and Invesco, earlier this year submitted applications to launch an ETF thatꦫ holds Bitcoin.
A major cloud hanging over the market's hopes was partially cleared last week by reports the SEC would not appeal a D.C. court's judgment that it overstepped when it blocked Grayscale's attempt to convert 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:its Bitcoin Trust into an ETF.
Midday Market Movers
Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN): Shares of the cryptocurrency exchange rose more than 7% as the price of Bitcoin climbed above $31,000 for the first time since July as investors ramped up bets the Securities and Exchange Commission will 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:soon approꦬve a long-awaited spot Bitcoin ETF.
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. (SPR): Shares of the plane parts supplier gained 6% after analysts at Bernstein upgraded the stock to outperform from market perform, citing the recent appointment of Pat Shanahan as CEO and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a new production deal with Boeing (BA).
Pfizer Inc. (PFE): Shares rose more than🐻 1% after Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche offered to buy Telavant Holdings, which it owns with biotech firm Roivant (ROIV), and its bowel-disease drug for about $7 billion.
FMC Corp. (FMC): Shares of the agricultural chemicals supplier fell 12% after it lowered its third-quarter and full-year sales and earnings outlook, citing an unexpected drop in Latin America sales driven by destocking in Brazil. Shares of peers Corteva Inc. (CTVA) and CF Industries Holdings Inc. (CF) also slipped over 2%.
Chevron Corp. (CVX): Shares fell more than 3% after it said it would buy Hess Corp. (HES) and its operations in Guyana, Sout🥀h Dakota, the Gulf of Mex༺ico, and the Gulf of Thailand, for about $53 billion.
Philips' Profit Rises After Simplifying Operations and Shoring Up Its Supply Chains
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:American depositary receipts (ADRs) of Philips (PHG) advanced as the healt🐭h technology firm posted better-than-expected results ꩲand raised its outlook on improved operational performance.
The Netherlands-based multinational reported third-quarter fiscal 2023 earnings b💮efore interest, taxes, deprecia🦄tion, and amortization (EBITA) soared 119% from a year ago to 457 million euros ($483.3 million), and comparable sales jumped 11% to $4.5 billꦆion euros ($4.77 billion).
Comparable revenue jumped 14% for its Diagnostic & Treatment unit, climbed 10% at its Connected Care divis꧂ion, and rose 7% at its Personal Care segment. However, a slowdown in demand from China led to a 9% drop in o🥀rders.
Philips 🧸ADRs were up 3.5% Monday afternoon, and have added a quarter of their value so far this year.
-Bill McColl
Fisker Stock Falls on Price Cuts
Shares of electric vehicle maker Fisker Inc. (FSR) fell 🐟more than 1% after it cut prices on its priciest vehicle, the Ocean Extreme🦋 SUV.
Fisker slashed Ocean Extreme prices to $61,499, a $7,500 reduction. At the𓆉 same time, it said it would raise the prices of its less expensive Ocean Ultra and Sport mode𒐪ls starting Nov. 6, 2023. Ocena Ultra prices will increase by $3,000 to $52,999, and Sport prices will go up $1,500 to $38,999.
“It is essential that Fisker responds to competitive realities in the rapidly growing EV market,” Chair and CEO Henrik Fisker said in a statement. And the reality is EV makers acro𓂃ss the globe are cutting p🐠rices to stir tepid demand.
Tesla, the leader in the ꧃U.S. EV market, has lowered prices several times in🔯 the last year in an attempt to drum up demand. That strategy has narrowed its margins without delivering a meaningful boost to sales, an outcome CEO Elon Musk pins on high interest rates.
"When you look at the cost or the price reductions we've made in, say, the Model Y, and you compare that to how much people's monthly payment has risen due to interest rates, the price of the Model Y is almost unchanged," Musk 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:sa💯id on Tesla’s quarterly earnings 🍌call last week.
UAW Expands Strike to Stellantis's Largest Plant
The United Auto Workers (UAW) on Monday expanded its stand-up strike again💧st the Big Three automakers as nego๊tiations over pay increases and protections in the electric vehicle ♍transition dragged on.
The union said that 6,800 workers at Stellantis's largest factory, the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in the Detroit suburbs, had joined the stand-up strike, bringing the total number of striking autoworkers to over 40,000. The strike is in its sixth week.
Monday's surprise expansion comes just days after the union 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:said it was making 𒈔progress with Stellantis (STLA) and General Motors (GM).
In a release Monday, the union accused Stellantis of having "the worst proposal on the table regarding wage progression, temporary worker pay and conversion to full-time, cost-of-living adjustments (COLA), and more."
Chevro🤡n to Buy Hess in Second Major Oil Deal in Weeks
Chevron Corp. (CVX), America’s second-largest oil company, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:said it would acquire Hess Corp. (HES) for $53 billion, the second-large🌺st U.S. acquisition this year.
The deal values Hess at $171 a share, a 5% premium over Friday’s closing price. Hess shares rose about 2% to $𝓀166 Monday morning.
The announcement comes just two weeks after ExxonMobil (XOM) said it would buy Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) for nearly $60 billion.
Surging oil and gas prices in 2022 boosted oil company profits to historic highs and left giants like Exxon and Chevron flush꧃ with cash.
Stocks Making the Biggest Moves Premarket
Gains:
- Roivant Sciences Ltd. (ROIV): Shares of the biotech firm jumped more than 8% after Swiss drugmaker Roche agreed to buy its bowel-disease subsidiary Telavant, which Roivant jointly owns with Pfizer (PFE), for more than $7 billion. Pfizer shares rose 1%.
- Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA): Shares gained 3% after analysts at JPMorgan upgraded the stock to overweight from neutral. The stock has lost more than 40% of its value so far this year, making it the worst-performing component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- Koninklijke Philips NV (PHG): The health tech company’s shares rose more than 1% after it beat analysts’ earnings estimates and raised its full-year sales and earnings outlook.
Losses:
- Okta Inc. (OKTA): Shares fell more than 7% before the open, adding to Friday’s 11% drop on news that hackers had accessed the cybersecurity firm’s support systems with stolen credentials.
- Salesforce Inc. (CRM): The enterprise software company’s shares fell about 2% after Piper Sandler downgraded the stock to neutral from overweight.
- Apple Inc. (AAPL): Shares fell more than 1% after Chinese tax authorities launched an investigation into Foxconn, a key Apple supplier and iPhone maker.
10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 16-Year High
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note exceeded 5% for the first time 🦩since July 2007.
Yieඣlds jumped 9 basis points to as high as 5.02% before U.S. equities markets opened on Monday.
Bond yields 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:move inversely to their prices, which are impacted by investors' expectations for inflation, as well as federal 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:monetary and fiscal policy. The yield on 10-year Treasurys has jumped more than 1 percentage point in the last three months as markets have adjusted to a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"higher for longer" intere🌊st rate environment.
Futures Sink After 10-Year Yield Tops 5%
Futures contractsꩲ connected to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were 0.5% lower in early trading after the 10-year Treasury yield passed 5% for the first time in 16 years.
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S&P 500 futures were also down 0.5%.
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Nasdaq 100 futures lost 0.6%.
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