Afternoon Note
Another day of the stimulus waiting game, which has caused the markets to gyrate up and down. Alyssa Farah, a Whitehouse spokesperson, stated:
House Speaker Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin are continuing talks and are scheduled to speak again today. When Pelosi was asked if she think there will be a deal by election, she said, “Well, I hope so. We can certainly hope so…”
At midday, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 are in the green, and the Dow has turned negative. Only, 2 S&P 500 are positive with Communication Services outperforming, on the heels of a blow earnings report from SnapChat (SNAP), and Energy is underperforming.
S&P 500 Index |
-0.19% |
|
Communication Services XLC |
+1.75% |
|
Consumer Discretionary XLY |
-0.70% |
|
Consumer Staples XLP |
+0.08% |
|
Energy XLE |
-1.17% |
|
Financials XLF |
-0.07% |
|
Health Care XLV |
-0.51% |
|
Industrials XLI |
-0.64% |
|
Materials XLB |
-0.02% |
|
Real Estate XLRE |
-0.50% |
|
Technology XLK |
-0.24% |
|
Utilities XLU |
-0.49% |
Breadth is negative, advancers and decliners are pretty much neck and neck, and new highs are far outpacing new lows.
Issues: |
NYSE |
NASDAQ |
Advancing |
1,154 |
1,294 |
Declining |
1,875 |
2,089 |
Unchanged |
73 |
90 |
52 Week High |
56 |
65 |
52 Week Low |
17 |
29 |
Advancing |
1.03B |
962.17M |
Declining |
1.07B |
956.20M |
Mortgage applications in total declined for a second week in a row, down 0.6%, after slipping 0.7% in the previous week. Mortgage rates rose slightly up 0.2% to 3.02% for a 30-year fixed mortgage, but this is still close to historic lows.
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