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    Stock Market Today: Dow down 100 points, trimming loss ahead of Nvidia earnings

    August 28, 20246 Mins Read


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    Financials, healthcare stocks flip positive ahead of closing bell

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    Joy Wiltermuth

    U.S. stocks were trimming earlier losses, with shares of financial and healthcare companies flipping back into positive territory.

    The Dow was down about 200 points in the final half-hour of trade, after previously tumbling more than 400 points at the session’s lows. The index was down 0.5%, at last check.

    The S&P 500 was 0.6% lower, while its financials sector was 0.1% higher and its healthcare segment was up less than 0.1%, according to FactSet data. The Nasdaq Composite was still off 0.9%.

    39 min ago

    U.S. stocks were lower on Wednesday in the final hour of trade, as investors awaited earnings results from AI chip maker Nvidia Corp.

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 260 points, or 0.6%, trading near 40,993. If the loss holds, it would mark the Dow’s worst daily percentage decline since Aug. 5, when it tumbled 2.6%, according to FactSet.

    The S&P 500 was 0.7% lower, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was down 1.1%, at last check.

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    Consumer-staples stocks have been leading the S&P 500 in August. But according to one analyst, the sector is due for a pullback.

    BTIG’s Jonathan Krinsky pointed out that the weekly relative-strength index, or RSI, of the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund recently touched 74, the highest level in 10 years. Technical analysts use RSI as a gauge of momentum for stocks and indexes.

    Since 2000, XLP’s weekly RSI has exceeded 73 on 10 occasions. In each case, average returns looking out eight to 10 weeks have been quite negative, Krinsky noted.

    But he caveated this by saying he continues to like defensive sectors and that he expects those equities, which include consumer staples, to continue climbing into the end of 2024.

    The S&P 500 consumer-staples sector has gained 5.3% in August, the best performance of any of the index’s 11 sectors as of Wednesday afternoon, according to FactSet data.

    The Federal Reserve could end up being too early to the rate-cutting party.

    Interest-rate cuts could spur “a 2025 reacceleration in real GDP, with 2.5% to 3% inflation becoming entrenched in the economy,” Steven Ricchiuto’s team of U.S. economists at Mizuho Securities wrote in a Wednesday client note.

    “Healthy household, corporate and bank balance sheets, accommodative financial-market conditions and excess liquidity all suggest the economy is on a solid upward trajectory,” they said.

    They also see potential problems with the Fed’s focus on keeping wages rising “at a healthy clip,” which together with other factors could result in inflationary pressures limiting the ultimate size and speed of the central bank’s rate cuts.

    Bitcoin prices were down roughly 5% over the past seven days, dropping to below the $60,000 threshold.

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    More stocks and sectors have joined in the rally in August, helping to ease concerns about a dangerously concentrated market.

    But Wednesday’s slump offered a timely reminder: The major indexes still need technology’s help if the rally is to continue.

    Nancy Tengler, CEO and CIO of Laffer Tengler Investments, noted that the market hasn’t quite kicked its dependence on technology in comments shared with MarketWatch via email.

    “Tech still matters. Broadening is good (and we have been positioned for that move) but if tech doesn’t work, the market will struggle,” Tengler said.

    The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were both down more than 1% in afternoon trading. Among the S&P 500’s 11 sectors, information technology was the worst performer. All members of the Magnificent Seven group of megacap stocks were struggling, too.

    Jitters ahead of Nvidia Corp.’s earnings results, which are due after the bell Wednesday, have been credited with contributing to the afternoon selloff in stocks.

    “People are nervous about it,” said Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manger at Dakota Wealth Asset Management, of Nvidia’s looming quarterly results. “The selling has begotten more selling, for no other reason than people being nervous.”

    While shares of some megacap technology companies have recovered lost ground since extreme volatility hit markets in early August, the likes of Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc. and Tesla Inc. still were trading lower on the month to date, according to FactSet.

    Pavlik said there were signs of profit-taking ahead of the chip maker’s earnings report as investors “raced to get out of the way of the speeding train that is Nvidia.”

    Shares of Nike Inc. were under pressure Wednesday, falling sharply to become the worst-performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in afternoon trading, according to FactSet data, at last check.

    Sneaker and sportswear giant Nike was down 3.7%, weighing on the Dow as the U.S. stock market broadly fell.

    The Dow, a blue-chip U.S. stock gauge, was down 0.8% on Wednesday afternoon, FactSet data show, at last check.

    What looked like a dip has turned into something worse.

    U.S. stocks were setting fresh lows in afternoon trade, as investors braced for earnings results after the bell Wednesday from megacap heavyweight Nvidia Corp.

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 383 points, or 0.9%, near 40,861.

    The S&P 500 was falling 632 points, or 1.1%, to 5,563.

    The Nasdaq Composite Index was shedding 300 points, or 1.7%, to 17,463.

    Bond-market volatility looks likely, even if the Federal Reserve manages to navigate a soft landing for the economy, according to LPL Financial.

    Bond-market volatility looks likely, even if the Federal Reserve manages to navigate a soft landing for the economy, according to LPL Financial. (LPL Research, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, 08/28/24)

    Even if the Federal Reserve pulls off a soft landing for the economy as it pivots to rate cuts, volatility in the bond market should still be expected, according to LPL Financial.

    History shows that soft landings are a rare feat following a period of Fed rate hikes. It also points to the risk of patches of volatility in the bond market, no matter what happens with the economy.

    “As policy adapts to economic conditions, bond market volatility often rises,” Jeffrey Roach, chief economist at LPL Financial, wrote in emailed comments Wednesday.

    To bolster the point, he overlaid the “MOVE index,” a measure of implied volatility of Treasury options, with periods of rate changes going back to 1988, which showed that implied volatility rose. “Even during the mid-1990s, when the Fed was able to orchestrate a soft landing, investors dealt with fixed income volatility,” he wrote.



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