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Equity Alert: US markets close mixed Fri; Nasdaq, S&P 500 advance

 

MUMBAI--0730 IST--US markets closed on a mixed note Friday as the 10-year Treasury yield rose 6 basis points and crossed 5.00% again and crude oil prices remained above $100 per barrel. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite ended in the green, driven by positive momentum in stocks related to semiconductor equipment making and cryptocurrency. The S&P 500 ended modestly higher. However, weakness in select stocks pulled the Dow Jones lower.

 

For the week, the S&P 500 was down for the second time in a row, while the Nasdaq Composite closed higher. Meanwhile, the blue-chip Dow Jones suffered its biggest weekly percentage decline since March. The Dow fell for the third straight week, down almost 2%. Over the three weeks, it shed 3.5%. "A lot of investors are trying to figure out not just the short-term implications, but longer-term implications of what the Fed may be embarking on and how that's going to impact equities and fixed-income investments," Reuters quoted Chuck Carlson, chief executive officer of Horizon Investment Services in Indiana, as saying. 

 

"The market seems to be closely tied to movements in oil prices," Carlson said. "So when they are trending higher for any short period of time, I think you get a little bit more of a respite in the market." The 10-year yield, which climbed above 5% briefly rose back above that threshold after sliding Thursday. It was last up almost at 5.006%.

 

Friday, shares of Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom rose almost 3%. The S&P 500 Information Technology sector was up almost 1%, and it was the top performer among the 11 S&P 500 sectoral indices. In the Nasdaq, 1,973 stocks rose and 2,810 fell. The rise in prices of bitcoin led to a 9-21% rise in shares of Coinbase, Strategy, and Robinhood. 

 

Following are the closing levels of key indices in the region Friday.

 

Index	Level	Change in %
Dow Jones Industrial Average	51682.64	(-)0.2
NASDAQ Composite	26522.55	0.4
S&P 500	7560.50	0.2

 

(Ayush Jaiswal)

 

US$1 = INR 95.87

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

 

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

 

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