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Equity Alert: US indices bounce back; Dow Jones index crosses 50,000 points

 

MUMBAI--0735 IST--Equity indices in the US made a comeback on Friday after ending lower for a couple of sessions due to fears of artificial intelligence disrupting businesses of services software companies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index crossed 50,000 points for the first time on Friday. 

 

Shares of NVIDIA and Broadcom were among the top gainers, up 8% and 7%, respectively, CNBC reported. Shares of Oracle and Palantir were also among key gainers, rising nearly 5?ch. However, shares of software companies threatened by AI such as ServiceNow, down 2%, remained weak. "We're in a gold rush right now with AI," Falcon Wealth Planning founder Gabriel Shahin was reported as saying. Shahin believes that the market is in the middle of a "great recalibration" where investors are going to move away from growth stocks and into value, CNBC said. On Friday, investors lapped up industrial and financial stocks. Shares of Caterpillar were up over 7% and those of Goldman Sachs rose over 4%. 

 

Shares of Amazon were down nearly 6?ter the company missed the Street's view of its earnings per share for the quarter. The tech giant reported revenue of $213.39 billion against an expectation of $211.33 billion and earnings per share of $1.95 against an estimate of $1.97 by LSEG, CNBC said. The company also said it would record capital expenditures of around $200 billion in 2026 against an expectation of $146.60 billion, according to Factset. The company made a capital expenditure of around $131 billion in 2025. 

 

Investors are expected to await a monthly employment report and a consumer prices report as these were pushed back slightly on account of the three-day government shutdown in the US. The non-farm payrolls data in the US for January is expected to report an increase of 70,000 jobs, Reuters said citing its poll. Even after acknowledging the stabilisation in the job market, the US Federal Reserve held its interest rate steady at its meeting after a survey showed layoffs by US employers surged in January.

 

Following are the closing levels of US indices Thursday:  

 

Index	Level	Change in %
S&P 500	6932.30	1.97
NASDAQ Composite	23031.21	2.18
Dow Jones Industrial Average	50115.67	2.47

 

(Akshat Saksena)

 

US$1 = INR 90.66

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

 

Edited by Avishek Dutta

 

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