Nasdaq leads rebound as chip stocks recover; Dow slips
Market & SentimentA split tape: the Nasdaq 100 rose 1.4% and the Russell 2000 gained 0.99%, while the Dow fell 0.4%. Breadth stayed weak, with 316 decliners against 183 advancers and only 59.4% of stocks above their 50-day average. Just 9 new highs versus 7 lows keeps the temperature neutral — a rebound concentrated in AI names rather than a broad recovery.
Sectors & StocksIndustrials led at +2.32% and information technology added 1.44%, while consumer staples fell 1.25% and real estate and financials lagged. AMD jumped 11.04% and Lam Research 8.23% as chip stocks rebounded from Thursday's rout; AppLovin rose 9.86% after its post-earnings run. Airbnb gained 11.67% on its Q3 beat. Booking fell 4.77%, Allstate 4.47% and Monster 4.41%.
Rates, FX & CryptoYields edged higher across the curve, with the 2-year up 5bp to 4.51% and the 10-year up 2bp to 4.86%, leaving the 2s10s spread at 35bp. The dollar firmed: EUR/USD fell 0.53% and USD/SGD rose 0.34%, while USD/CNY edged up 0.04%, a marginally weaker yuan. Bitcoin slipped 0.3% to about $75,748 and ether was flat.
Earnings & AnnouncementsHumana reported Q3 revenue up 26.0% with an adjusted loss of $0.70 per share. Charter swung to a quarterly loss as it lost internet and video subscribers, though Cox integration lifted revenue. Moderna posted $1.31 billion in revenue and turned GAAP-profitable; PPL beat estimates and raised its long-term growth target with a $25 billion capital plan. FinDog moved Moderna from Bearish to Neutral and PPL from Neutral to Bullish, among several view changes.
- Constellation Energy, KKR and NRG report before the open
- Occidental, Take-Two and Rocket Lab report after the close
- Whether chip-led rebound broadens beyond AI names
- Treasury yield moves after 2-year rose 5bp
- Investors are balancing growth and inflation concerns while a technology selloff accelerates, a backdrop that kept breadth weak even as chip names rebounded Friday.Reuters11-06 05:09 UTC
- Individual investors sold more stocks in a single day than at any point since the Covid selloff, rotating out of technology amid a broader market correction.CNBC11-05 21:20 UTC
- The Nasdaq's drop into correction territory puts historical recoveries in focus, framing how investors are reading the recent tech-led pullback.CNBC11-05 21:57 UTC
- A single brutal session erased roughly $450 billion from Nvidia's value, with Wall Street pricing an AI slowdown that reported numbers do not confirm.
- After midterm voters turned against new data centers, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta face rules requiring them to pay for their own power and grid costs.
- Google is spending $17 billion on a Wyoming data center and says it will pay for 100% of its power, addressing a key objection to AI build-outs.
- Musk said Tesla will end Cybertruck production in Texas next year to ramp the Cybercab, after the model failed to reach mass-market sales.
- Eli Lilly will let Hims & Hers sell Zepbound and Foundayo directly on its platform, alongside Novo Nordisk's drugs already there; Hims shares rose 4%.
- Health Canada authorized Moderna's mRNA influenza vaccine and a combined flu/COVID shot, the first country to approve both, coming alongside its Q3 return to profit.
- GE Aerospace struck record China agreements, with China Eastern ordering 202 engines; shares rose on the deal.
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