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Equity Alert: S&P 500, Dow Jones end higher Friday, snap 4-day losing streak

 

MUMBAI--0743 IST--The S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended higher on Friday, snapping a four-day losing streak, while the NASDAQ Composite fell for the fifth consecutive session. 

 

Chip stocks were the highest gainers, with the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index gaining 4%, according to a report by Reuters. The S&P 500 Utilities and the S&P 500 Industrials gained over 1% and nearly 2%, respectively. Gains in construction and mining company Caterpillar and Boeing Co., up 4.5% and 4.9%, respectively, helped lift the Dow Jones Industrial index, the report said. Losses in shares of heavyweight companies Apple and Microsoft kept the gains in check for the S&P 500 index. 

 

The NASDAQ and S&P 500 indices were under pressure due to losses in consumer discretionary stocks such as Amazon, Reuters said. Shares of Tesla fell 2.6?ter the company reported lower annual sales for the year. The company ceded its position as the top electric vehicle maker to China's BYD, with the latter outselling the former for the first time. Tesla delivered sales of 1.64 million units in 2025, against 1.79 million units recorded in 2024, slightly lower than the 1.65 million sales estimated for 2025 by analysts polled by Visible Alpha, Reuters reported. 

 

The market is seeing a period in which investors are profiting from short-term market volatility by timing their exit and entry points through a "buy the dip, sell the rip," trading mentality, Joe Mazzola, head of trading & derivatives strategist at Charles Schwab, told Reuters. For the year ahead, markets are expected to focus on the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy as Chairman Jerome Powell's tenure comes to an end. Investors are pricing in further rate reductions due to recent economic data and as the next Federal Reserve chairman is expected to be more 'dovish' than Powell, according to a report by Reuters. Labour market data would be a key highlight in January, the report added. 

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Friday:

 

Index	Level	Change in %
S&P 500	6858.47	0.19
NASDAQ Composite	23235.629	(-)0.03
Dow Jones Industrial Average	48382.39	0.66

 

(Akshat Saksena)

 

US$1 = INR 90.20

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

 

Edited by Avishek Dutta

 

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