Modest gains to end an up week
The major indices in the US were able to eek out small gains for the day. For the week, the gains were not bad with the Dow leading the way.
- S&P rose 8.66 points or 0.31% at 2779. For the week, the index rose 1.62%
- Nasdaq rose 10.44 points or 0.14% at 7645.51. For the week, the index rose 1.21%
- Dow rose 75.12 points or 0.30% at 25316.53. For the week, the index rose by 2.77%
How are the major indices doing for the year?
- S&P is up 3.94%
- Nasdaq is up 10.75%
- Dow is up 2.42%
Apple today was a laggard on news that they warned suppliers of a drop of around 20 percent in new iPhone component orders. The stock closed down 1.04% on the day.
Winners today included:
- Twitter up 3.78%
- Micron up 2.95%
- AMD up 2.42%
- Disney up 1.44%
- Home Depot up 1.07%
- Microsoft up 0.74%
- ALibaba up 0.72%
- Visa up 0.66%
Laggards besides Apple today include:
- Broadcom down -2.54%
- Intel down -1.49%
- Caterpillar down -0.61%
- Morgan Stanley -0.48%
- Cisco -0.39%
- Bank of America -0.37%
- Amazon, -0.31%
- Alphabet -0.27%
- Nvidia -0.24%
- Netflix -0.23%