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Market Wrap: Stocks, Bonds, Commodities |
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On Thursday, both the S&P 500 (down 9 points or 0.13% to 6,969) and the Nasdaq 100 (down 138 points or 0.53% to 25,884) closed slightly lower.
Meanwhile, the Dow Jones gained 55 points (+0.11%) to 49,071.
Microsoft (MSFT) plunged 9.99%. The tech giant’s cloud-computing unit Azure reported 38% year-on-year growth in revenue in the fiscal second quarter, slower compared to the first quarter and failing to impress investors.
Meta Platforms (META) surged 10.40% after reporting better-than-expected quarterly sales and giving an upbeat full-year operating-income outlook. The company also projected full-year capital expenditures at up to 135 billion dollars, up from 72 billion dollars last year.
Tesla (TSLA) closed 3.45% lower despite delivering better-than-expected quarterly results. The electric-vehicle maker also announced an agreement to invest about 2 billion dollars in CEO Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI.
International Business Machines (IBM) gained 5.13% and Caterpillar (CAT) rose 3.41%, as both companies’ quarterly results surpassed expectations.
In after-market hours, after reporting quarterly results, Apple (AAPL) added less than 1%, while Sandisk (SNDK) surged 14%.
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield dipped 1.4 basis points to 4.233%.
In Europe, the DAX 40 sank 2.07%, while the CAC 40 edged up 0.06%, and the FTSE 100 was up 0.17%.
U.S. WTI crude futures rose 2.21 dollars (3.50%) to $65.42 dollars a barrel, reaching a four-month high amid rising concerns over a potential U.S. attack on Iran.
Gold touched an all-time high at 5,598 dollars an ounce before retreating to 5,378 dollars.
Silver marked an all-time high above 121 dollars an ounce before easing back to the level of 115 dollars.
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The U.S. dollar index eased back to 96.19. U.S. factory orders grew 2.7% month on month in November, faster than expected.
EUR/USD rose 17 pips to 1.1969.
USD/JPY fell 28 pips to 153.12.
GBP/USD was little changed at 1.3807, AUD/USD gained 13 pips to 0.7053.
USD/CHF slipped 34 pips to 0.7648, and USD/CAD dropped 72 pips to 1.3483.
Bitcoin came under heavy selling pressure, plunging over 5% to 84,300 dollars.
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In Asian trading hours, USD/JPY rebounded to 153.85. Japan's jobless rate stayed at 2.6% in December and industrial production fell 0.1% month-on-month, both as expected, while retail sales dropped 2.0%, compared with +0.3% expected.
Meanwhile, AUD/USD retreated to 0.6980. Australia's producer price index rose 3.5% year-on-year in the fourth quarter as expected.
EUR/USD dropped to 1.1900 and GBP/USD was down to 1.3740.
Gold slid to 5,180 dollars.
Bitcoin extended its decline to 81,552 dollars.
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The eurozone's fourth quarter gross domestic product is expected to increase by 1.4% year-on-year, while jobless rate is estimated to be steady at 6.3% in December.
Germany's fourth quarter gross domestic product is expected to grow 0.5% year-on-year, while jobless rate is anticipated to be unchanged at 6.3% in January and inflation rate is anticipated to edge up to 1.9% year-on-year in January.
France's fourth quarter gross domestic product is expected to be up 1.1% year-on-year, while producer price index is estimated to drop 3.5% year-on-year in December.
In the U.S., producer price index is expected to increase by 2.9% year-on-year in December, while the Chicago purchasing managers index is estimated to climb to 45.0 in January.
Canada's gross domestic product is expected to grow 0.2% month-on-month in November.
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