A specialist dealer works inside a sales space on the ground of the New York Inventory Trade (NYSE) in New York Metropolis, October 6, 2021.
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Futures on the Nasdaq 100 dipped in in a single day buying and selling Thursday after disappointing earnings studies from know-how corporations.
Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.5%. Dow Jones Industrial Common futures shed 26 factors. S&P 500 futures ticked down 0.3%.
Shares of Intel retreated greater than 8% after hours following a weaker-than-expected gross sales report. The semiconductor firm blamed an industry-wide chip scarcity for its income miss.
Social media shares additionally dropped in prolonged buying and selling after Snap mentioned its promoting enterprise declined as a consequence of Apple’s privateness adjustments. Snap shares sunk greater than 21% whereas Fb and Twitter every pulled again greater than 4% after hours.
In Thursday’s common session, the S&P 500 notched each a contemporary intraday excessive and new report shut. The broad index rose 0.3% for its seventh consecutive constructive session. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.6%, whereas the Dow shed 6.26 factors, or 0.02%.
Traders digested a slew of company earnings studies. Tesla shares closed 3% increased Thursday, offering assist to the S&P 500 and Nadaq Composite.
Firms are posting robust earnings to date this third-quarter reporting season regardless of provide chain and inflation headwinds. Out of 101 S&P 500 members which have reported monetary outcomes, 82.6% have topped earnings expectations, based on FactSet as of Thursday after the bell.
“In 1 / 4 the place we thought issues would decelerate and there was concern about what revenue margins have been going to seem like, these corporations are nonetheless doing nicely,” mentioned Victoria Fernandez, chief market strategist at Crossmark World Investments.
Sturdy jobs information additionally added to the constructive market sentiment. Preliminary jobless claims fell to a brand new pandemic low of 290,000 final week, the Labor Division reported Thursday — down 6,000 from the earlier week and decrease than the 300,000 anticipated from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
All three main averages are on monitor to shut the week increased for three-straight weeks of features. On the month, all three indexes are up a minimum of 5%.
Traders await earnings studies Friday from corporations together with American Specific, Honeywell, Schlumberger and Cleveland-Cliffs.