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US equity indexes rose in midday trading on Friday as technology topped sector charts and Washington
Archer stock saw solid gains last month, and it's off to a strong start in May.
The blue-chip index was up just 11 points, or essentially flat, in Friday trading, compared to a 1.3% gain for the Nasdaq. The Dow only includes 30 stocks, has a higher weighting toward financials and industrials and a lower weighting toward tech, and only weighs individual members by stock price rather than market cap. Case in point: The iShares Semiconductor ETF is up 3.9% and the Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF is up 1.1%.
KTCAX, JNGTX and FELIX could benefit as global semiconductor sales surge 79.2% year over year in March amid booming AI demand.
Amazon stock has been on an impressive hot streak lately.
Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman breaks down the University of Michigan consumer sentiment data and its effect on the economy.
Despite recent gains, Microsoft's stock has still seen a double-digit pullback this year.
U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday, with the S&P 500 retreating after hitting an all-time high in the previous session, as oil prices bounced back from their initial lows and uncertainty over U.S.-Iran peace talks weighed on investors' sentiment.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were chasing fresh highs on Friday after the unemployment rate held steady in April. The S&P was up 0.5%. The Nasdaq was up 0.6%. The Dow rose 220 points, or 0.4%. The S&P and Nasdaq were on pace for record closing highs.
Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Friday ahead of the April jobs report. Coinbase and Cloudflare dived on earnings.
8am: Futures point higher US stocks are set for a positive open on Friday, with futures pointing higher as Wall Street looks ahead to April's non-farm payrolls report, even as tensions in the Middle East flared overnight. Nasdaq futures are up 0.7%, S&P 500 futures have gained 0.5%,...
Wall Street futures pointed moderately higher pre-bell Friday as tech issues gained, crude oil price
Dow Jones futures: President Donald Trump says a U.S.-Iran ceasefire is intact despite clashes. Rocket Lab, Cloudflare and IREN are big earnings movers.
May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday as a recovery in chipmakers helped offset worries about renewed U.S.-Iran tensions, while investors looked ahead to a crucial employment
MU, CIEN, STX, FIVE and MUSA are highlighted as large-cap growth stocks benefiting from AI demand, retail momentum and expansion strategies.
Stocks were on course to rise to close out the week, with Wall Street seemingly more focused on the looming April jobs report than an exchange of fire between the U.S. and Iran. S&P 500 futures added 0.3% and contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 gained 0.5%. Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report could have a bigger bearing on the market than events in the Middle East.
Investors are taking overnight clashes in stride.
After gaining more than 3% over the last two sessions, the Russell 2000 lost 1.6%.
<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday, with the Dow dropping nearly two-thirds of a percent, the S&P 500 shedding more than one-third of a percent and the Nasdaq dipping marginally.</p><p>Uncertainty around peace talks between the U.S. and Iran weighed on the market, with Iran reviewing a proposal that would stop fighting but leave the most contentious issues unresolved.</p><p>Meanwhile, market-leading chip stocks retreated after their recent rally.</p><p>:: Arm Holdings</p><p> Archive</p><p>U.S.-listed shares of Arm Holdings tumbled 10% as worries about the company's ability to secure sufficient supplies for its new AI chip overshadowed a strong earnings forecast.</p><p>Intel and Advanced Micro Devices also declined, giving back some of their gains from earlier this week.</p><p>Keith Buchanan, senior portfolio manager at Globalt Investments, said he'd now like to see a broadening of market gains beyond chip makers and other AI-linked companies.</p><p>"Leadership has become narrow again. And that's something that concerns us from our framework, is we don't feel like a participation has been what it needs to be to continue to power this bull market forward beyond the point where we are now. So earnings season is really important. We're right in the middle of it right now. So that will give us a little more clarity as to the storylines and, frankly, the momentum that we feel like has to start to spread away from where it's been concentrated over the past week and a half."</p><p>:: CoreWeave</p><p>Other stock moves on Thursday included cloud provider CoreWeave, which closed down more than 6% but gained in extended trading after beating analysts' estimates for quarterly revenue. The company reported strong demand for its high-performance computing services used to train and deploy AI models.</p><p>Shares of Datadog soared 31% after the cloud-monitoring company raised its full-year earnings forecast. Cybersecurity companies CrowdStrike jumped 8% and Palo Alto Networks added 7%.</p><p>Elsewhere in the market, shares of Whirlpool slumped nearly 12% after the home-appliance maker missed first-quarter sales estimates and suspended its dividend.</p><p>Investors now turn their attention to Friday's nonfarm payrolls report, which is expected to show continued labor market resilience.</p></body>
ChargePoint Holdings, Inc. (CHPT) concluded the recent trading session at $6.16, signifying a -3.14% move from its prior day's close.